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    The Buncefield fire was a major fire at an oil storage facility that started at 06:01 UTC on Sunday 11 December 2005 at the Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal...
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    Accessed August 2007 "Buncefield tank 'was overflowing'". BBC News. 9 May 2006. Retrieved 5 June 2007. "2005: Massive fire at Buncefield oil depot". 11 December...
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  • Schiphol Airport, Netherlands, killed 11 and injured 15. December 11–13 – Buncefield fire, a major explosion at Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal in Hemel Hempstead...
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  • applied in the investigation of many high profile accidents such as Buncefield fire, Piper Alpha, TWA Flight 800, and the Petrobras 36 platform. FLACS...
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  • Deflagration to detonation transition (category Industrial fires and explosions)
    Phillips disaster of 1989 in Pasadena, Texas Damage observed in the Buncefield fire 2020 Beirut explosions The phenomenon is exploited in pulse detonation...
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    Buncefield oil terminal, 2005 – The UK's largest peacetime fire broke out on 11 December 2005 at the Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal at Buncefield...
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    Esso Longford disaster of 1998, the 2005 Buncefield fire, the 2009 Jaipur fire, the 2009 Cataño oil refinery fire, the 2019 Xiangshui chemical plant explosion...
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    Flixborough disaster (category Industrial fires and explosions in the United Kingdom)
    11.2 t and 60t) and for the Buncefield fire (Fig 3.4.1). Flixborough gives a higher estimated over-pressure than Buncefield. A leak had developed on the...
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    assist operations at the Buncefield fire in Hertfordshire in 2005 and nationwide flooding in 2007. In July 2010, the Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service began...
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    33″N 0°25′26.33″W / 51.7637028°N 0.4239806°W / 51.7637028; -0.4239806 Buncefield oil depot is operated by Hertfordshire Oil Storage Ltd (HOSL) and officially...
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