Dock fires spread to city
Disaster / Destruction
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fires continued to burn until July 22
And when the inevitable happened, and some small time street Boss rose up to overthrow the City Boss, and throw down his sympathizers, 9 year old Killer was meant to be rounded up with them. But three years of running errands for mob bosses had taught Killer the signs to watch for - and all the best hidy holes in the city. He just really failed to understand the scope of such a take over. He heard the fighting outside, listened in horror as fighting turned to guns turned to explosions. In the end he'd climbed down in the water itself as the buildings and the ships started to burn, clinging to the dock pilings. It was foul and so polluted he was afraid it might catch fire too. The heat got so intense at a few times he had to dive completely under, holding his breath until he could no more, only to risk surfacing for a new one and diving back under again. The fires burned for hours. The docks where unrecognizable when he could tread no longer and lay gasping and exhausted on the stone work at the shore. The ships where gone. The wharf and piers charred down to the sea. The taverns and markets and shops no more than rubble as far as he could see. Corpses littered the streets, burned and rotting. He wandered the streets - everything changed so much he didn't know where he was anymore, even if his feet did, eventually taking him back to the long time safety of Eustass' Tavern & Inn. It too had been caught up in the fires, the Inn part completely gone, and only a scattering of the tavern's shell still there.Not to say she hasn't done this dance with men before, but Kidd was still a child then, and desperate times had called for desperate measures. That had been ages ago, before they had a crew, before they had people to back them up should a fight break out. Once, they'd been at a point where she couldn't say no, less they both just be killed outright and their stuff taken anyway.
Piper Alpha exploded and collapsed under the effect of sustained gas jet fires in the night between 6 and 7 July 1988, killing 165 of the men on board (30 of whose bodies were never recovered), as well as a further two rescuers. On 9 July an oil slick 3.6 kilometres (2.2 miles) long and 100 metres (330 ft) wide was reported. Only two downhole safety valves failed to close, and five oil wells were left burning.The fires were eventually extinguished by a team onboard Tharos led by firefighter Red Adair,who had been asked to intervene by Occidental chairman Armand Hammer.A relief well was started on 14 July. The wells were capped by 22 July by fitting new valves on top, which allowed introduction of kill fluids. The remains of the platform were toppled into the sea on 28 March 1989 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_Alpha
