We have a Golf Whiskey Foxtrot Tango.
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Fubar. Thought twice about alerting the local club. Looks like a couple tournaments will be cancelled this weekend (due to weather).
But then…
Reminding of local union reps responses.
Time bomb.
Or the Sicilian women in my family.
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Just rinding back home and there is a column of black smoke in the same area, I was passed by a fire chiefs car with lights and sirens going.
This headline says it was a watch explosion at a golf ball factory.
Doesn’t really make sense that watches would explode at a golf ball factory.
Death toll raised to 7. The final missing fireman was found dead. 3 workers still missing.
I did this as a child but nothing like that happened. Maybe an older design though? Under the tough exterior was just many meters of skinny rubber-band wound tightly around a hard rubber core.
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Just reporting on the news, 8 confirmed dead and still looking for the other 2 (presumed dead also).
Edit: one more body recovered, 9 confirmed and 1 missing.
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Just awful. 
Guy
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I read a news article about oxidizers present at the site. Are they making fireworks?
If I have to guess, there’s a lot of safety violations going on. It’s sounding like that big explosion at beruit. Problem is firefighters die because they didn’t know what they were walking into. Only difference is we didn’t get a nuclear sized explosion.
Was there sprinklers at the site? If I have to guess probably not.
My friend who opened a coffee shop is made to install sprinklers, because he’s a foreigner. I have to guess them being taiwanese, likely with a lot of guanxi, aren’t following rules.
Another reason why I’m so hesitant to work at factories, poor safety and chabuduo attitude to procedure.
I hope regulations will start being enforced consistently, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.
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Same here. Had to test it out. Luckily both eyes are still working.
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Peroxide is use in plastic and rubber industries, last I looked both are used in golfballs.
There has been a lot of miss information going around, like the firefighters didn’t know what they was doing and used water when they shouldn’t have. They did know and they had a plan of action, if you see the video the explosion happens when they was just entering the building.
What is your information for this guess?
It was a relatively modern factory in a development zone, the factory I have visited in that site had a fire suppression system, other factors I have visited in other development sites like this have also had them, why would this one not?
Nothing to do with being a foreigner, it’s because of the building/ business type.
I have not seen one viable report that rules have not been followed, just the sensationalist stuff trying to get a reaction.
Just another excuse to say why you don’t want to work, few people like working in a factory, people just do it to earn money.
That would probably make Taiwan one of a few countries in the world that do so.
The graft here is no worse than America, Europe or other parts of Asia, standards are better in some cases.
You should try, it may give you a different outlook on life.
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I would guess not, since water would react with the chemicals they had on site, and cause an explosion.
A fire suppression system / sprinkler system is not necessarily water, normally they are tailored to the environment. Saying that, one of the reports I saw was saying they were investigating if this was the cause of the secondary explosion, but no proof of anything this early.
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Imagine telling firefighters who lost their friends and comrades they don’t need to be so upset…and saying there are “procedures to follow” as illegal factories continue to skirt the law and have to take little to no responsibility.
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This fire had nothing to do with the procedures and protocols though. They were blasted off while just standing by outside.
Hakka TV will air episode featuring one of the deceased firefighters Monday evening (today).
The couple’s love story will be told in episode 78 of Hakka TV’s “Home, sweet home” program, scheduled to air at 9 p.m. Monday and again at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Trailer:
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