Brendwynne
Member
Just looking for confirmation. Son just showed me a post on Reddit that had.a pic of a fire with the headline that a Data Center exploded?
BRKG Looking for confirmation, Large Fire, Possible Explosion Near Sterling Virginia.
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LibertyMom
Senior Member
Apparently an explosion in Sterling, VA near a data center. Not much info yet.
Brendwynne
Member
Thank you on my phone and can't see very well with my old eyes.
Could you please edit your title to remove DC, since it apparently was in Virginia? It really is rather startling at this time.
Summerthyme
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Brendwynne
Member
Sorry that was the headline he showed me and so I posted asking for confirmation. I'm using my phone and can't see so well. Can someone edit it for me?
LoupGarou
Ancient Fuzzball
From: Emergency crews respond to large fire, explosion in Sterling
Emergency crews respond to large fire, explosion in Sterling
Posted on January 16, 2021
by Chris Wadsworth
The Loudoun County Fire Marshals Office is investigating a large structure fire and explosion Friday evening in Sterling. The explosion was ultimately determined to be propane cylinder. Here is the statement from Loudoun County Fire Rescue:
“At approximately 10 p.m., (Loudoun County Fire Rescue) units from the Sterling, Ashburn, Kincora, Moorefield and Fairfax County North Point fire and rescue stations were dispatched for a reported structure fire at 45781 Maries Road in the Sterling District. The structure on fire appeared to be an old barn or storage type structure on an undeveloped parcel of land across the street from the Sybase Data Center.”
“Incoming fire and rescue units received a report from an (Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office) unit on the scene that the structure was fully involved with fire. An explosion occurred as the first units arrived which appeared to be a propane cylinder. LC-CFRS units initiated a rapid exterior attack on the fire with master stream devices and concurrently established a water supply from one fire hydrant at the data center and another hydrant further down Maries Road. Due to the advanced state of the fire, all suppression operations were from an exterior position.”
As The Burn reported on Thursday, local authorities are on heightened alert after online threats were made against data centers. The proximity of the fire to a data center raised eyebrows, but thus far, there is no reported link. Twitter user Bob Mertz was in the area and recorded video of the fire from a nearby Sheetz gas station.
(Image at top: Loudoun Career Firefighters Association — IAFF 3756 via Facebook)
Emergency crews respond to large fire, explosion in Sterling
Posted on January 16, 2021
by Chris Wadsworth
The Loudoun County Fire Marshals Office is investigating a large structure fire and explosion Friday evening in Sterling. The explosion was ultimately determined to be propane cylinder. Here is the statement from Loudoun County Fire Rescue:
“At approximately 10 p.m., (Loudoun County Fire Rescue) units from the Sterling, Ashburn, Kincora, Moorefield and Fairfax County North Point fire and rescue stations were dispatched for a reported structure fire at 45781 Maries Road in the Sterling District. The structure on fire appeared to be an old barn or storage type structure on an undeveloped parcel of land across the street from the Sybase Data Center.”
“Incoming fire and rescue units received a report from an (Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office) unit on the scene that the structure was fully involved with fire. An explosion occurred as the first units arrived which appeared to be a propane cylinder. LC-CFRS units initiated a rapid exterior attack on the fire with master stream devices and concurrently established a water supply from one fire hydrant at the data center and another hydrant further down Maries Road. Due to the advanced state of the fire, all suppression operations were from an exterior position.”
As The Burn reported on Thursday, local authorities are on heightened alert after online threats were made against data centers. The proximity of the fire to a data center raised eyebrows, but thus far, there is no reported link. Twitter user Bob Mertz was in the area and recorded video of the fire from a nearby Sheetz gas station.
(Image at top: Loudoun Career Firefighters Association — IAFF 3756 via Facebook)
LibertyMom
Senior Member
Sterling is a suburb of DC... I only heard of it a few minutes before seeing the thread, but looking for more info, it appears to have happened last night. Perhaos a propane tank inor near a barn near Sybase Data Center. There was a similar fire on adjacent property about a week before as well.
wtop.com
Loudoun County barn explodes, burns ‘to the ground’ - WTOP News
A barn in Loudoun County, Virginia, was destroyed after an explosion on Friday night, according to a fire official.
wtop.com
night driver
ESFP adrift in INTJ sea
Doz, let me know if you get yours back so I can apply fr MY dozen heart-beats and get them back, too.
intothatgoodnight
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LOTS of data-farms in the Sterling/Ashburn/Herndon/Reston VA region - big installations sprinkled throughout that entire area.
intothegoodnight
intothegoodnight
I changed the title.
Expediency is desirable but waiting five minutes to gather more information is even more desirable.
Especially now, with tensions so high and a flood of disinformation being strewn about by multiple factions.
AlfaMan
Has No Life - Lives on TB
And more building every day. That area of Loudoun county is starting to experience issues with homeless people; they hang out at the intersections during the day and beg for money.
This sounds like a homeless person found a place to stay for the night and a fire got out of hand.