Didcot Station Blast Declared Casualties After Accident
British emergency services confirmed on Tuesday of a major incident at Didcot power plant involving an explosion at Oxfordshire site that resulted to one dead and five injured.
The confirmed dead in the wreckage was identified as Mick Collings by members of a motorbike club and Whitby Mick by family and friends. Four of the five injured who were rushed to the hospital for treatment have been reportedly released while the remaining one is already in a stable medical condition.
Also, Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service chief fire Officer David Etheridge announced of an ongoing effort to find three missing people trapped in the collapsed infrastructure. But time is running out and hope is fading as there had been "no signs of life detected" in the rubble according to a report by BBC News.
To facilitate the difficult retrieval operation, rescue workers make use of highly-trained sniffer dogs, heat-seeking cameras, and listening device but fear that finding the missing men may take a number of weeks as mentioned in a Mirror report.
Because of the incident, media reports found that firm contracted to carry out the demolition of the Didcot power station admitted that the company lacked the technical expertise and experience to demolish the power station through controlled explosion.
"The client was made aware that this was our first power station - we'd never done anything like this," he said in the video which was uploaded in December. But we're that type of a company that we learn to adapt," said project director Kieran Conaty of the Birmingham-based demolition specialists Coleman and Company as quoted by Independent.
