The News Corp. Chemical Explosion: An Exercise In Irony
Yesterday’s chemical explosion at the Rockefeller Center home of Fox News and the New York Post turns out to have had a sad, ironic cause: a government audit of hazardous materials in the building.
Hazmat investigators were conducting 1211 Sixth Avenue’s mandatory annual chemical check when a fire broke up on an upper floor that housed chemicals used for the building’s cooling and heating system. The fire was apparently caused when a maintenance crew accidentally spilled a combustible anti-bacterial agent that was used for the heating/cooling system.
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