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Old 6th Jun 2021, 09:06
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Planemike
 
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Originally Posted by ve3id
We have several right inside the city of Toronto. A few years back, they were excavating for a new development beside the East York Staples/Business Depot and they discovered a huge underground fuel storage tank that was part of an airport apparently abandoned in the 1930s. "Wow, imagine if all that jet fuel had blown up" was a comment heard by a young reporter on the CBC!
Yep.....an even even bigger "bang", if it had been filled with 100 Octane....!!!!
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