Powers out in the villages so probably a transformer?
Seems to be a possible gas explosion in the Yarnton area. ~~Several flats destroyed, some people missing.~~
Edit: Correction it looks to be at a recycling facility with an anaerobic digester.
Severn Trent Green Power can confirm that at around 19:20 this evening, a digester tank at its Cassington AD facility near Yarnton, Oxfordshire, was struck by lightning resulting in the biogas within that tank igniting,” the statement revealed.
> UPDATE: Severn Trent Green Power confirm that at around 19:20 this evening, a digester tank at its Cassington AD facility near Yarnton, Oxfordshire, was struck by lightning resulting in the biogas within that tank igniting.
I really hope it isn’t Boris Johnson’s house going up in flames?
I heard the explosion in Haslemere at about 4:30. It was awesome.
That’s what they want you to think it is lighting but it’s not… /s
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I heard the bang thought it was lightning. Nope, giant explosion. Wonder if it’s a gas leak?
Looks like it might be an anaerobic digestion waste plant where they are turning food waste into (highly explosive) bio-methane.
https://www.stgreenpower.co.uk/ – maybe hit by lightning causing the explosion?
Powers out in the villages so probably a transformer?
Seems to be a possible gas explosion in the Yarnton area. ~~Several flats destroyed, some people missing.~~
Edit: Correction it looks to be at a recycling facility with an anaerobic digester.
Severn Trent Green Power can confirm that at around 19:20 this evening, a digester tank at its Cassington AD facility near Yarnton, Oxfordshire, was struck by lightning resulting in the biogas within that tank igniting,” the statement revealed.
@[BBCOxford](https://twitter.com/BBCOxford/status/1708940482959622637):
> UPDATE: Severn Trent Green Power confirm that at around 19:20 this evening, a digester tank at its Cassington AD facility near Yarnton, Oxfordshire, was struck by lightning resulting in the biogas within that tank igniting.
I really hope it isn’t Boris Johnson’s house going up in flames?
I heard the explosion in Haslemere at about 4:30. It was awesome.
That’s what they want you to think it is lighting but it’s not… /s