#BREAKING: Firefighters are battling a massive 5 acres warehouse fire with potential hazardous fumes 
#Kissimmee l #Florida Currently over a 80+ firefighters are battling a Massive 5 acre fire that has broken out a warehouse storing plastic plant pots, fertilizers, and… Show more
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First discernable infrared (IR) dot first appears at 01:16 local time on NOAA website; image above is 01:21, circled in red. Also note the creepy bug-like clouds …I would wager they have something to do with the severity of the fire. They are not natural and always seem proximate to black-dot fires on the NOAA Image Viewer. Understand that each dot represents a 2km area; a fire needs to be REALLY hot for the darkest dots to appear.
Yes, it is a plastics fire, and yes it will burn real hot …but the nature and severity of this fire along with all the transient black dots that hit Florida’s agricultural areas on a daily basis (Lake Okeechobee area) are enough for me to think DEW. I know not how this nursery plastics fire started, but I say it had some help keeping it roaring.
Seeing how much the facility is engulfed reminded me of the March 2021 Walmart Indianapolis fire. Gosh, a very new distribution center with modern fire suppression somehow burnt to the ground, too.
Those bug-like clouds were present at nearly all of the West Coast fires in summer-fall 2021. The NOAA temperature indications (colors) of the clouds are …electrical for lack of better term.
Here is the animation link for anyone interested. It updates every five minutes, first-in, first-out.
GOES-East - Sector view: Southeast - Band 7 - NOAA / NESDIS / STAR
-ThePatternGuy
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