Two dead in fireworks plant explosion near Montreal [video included]

[note via Dutchsinse: Montreal Canada.. large explosion.. ANOTHER fireworks factory..

Time for me to start covering explosions again.. since they’re rolling out the SAME explanations over and over again now..]

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CNN.com
June 20, 2013

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(CNN) — Two people died Thursday when a fireworks plant exploded near Montreal, federal police in Quebec said.

“You could see the fireworks going off,” said Stacey Hylen, who was bicycling with her husband and 5-year-old daughter to a nearby school to watch her 10-year-old participate in a mini triathlon.

“The kids thought it was fireworks for the start of their triathlon,” Hylen, 41, told CNN in a telephone interview.

The plant is located a mile north of the school in the town of Coteau-du-Lac, nearly an hour’s drive southwest of Montreal.

As the explosions continued, it became clear that was not the case. “It was like a bomb,” she said. “It was so loud. Like, at first you were thinking it was dynamite. It just kept going on and on. And then, when you saw the mushroom cloud it was like, woah! It just freaked me out. It shook. I had friends tell me it shook their house, and they live miles away.”

Soon after, thick black smoke emerged from the roof of one of the factory’s two buildings, both corrugated-metal structures about 20 feet tall.

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