(27 Aug 2024)
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Clinton Township, Michigan – 27 August 2024
1. Various of a building explosion site that now is being cleaned up by the federal Environmental Protection Agency
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Sean Kane, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency:
“U.S. EPA did a half-mile reconnaissance of the footprint of the site to stabilize the site. So, we collected lithium-ion batteries, pressed gas cylinders and some ultra-refined butane — items that were involved in the fire and explosion.”
3. Various of EPA official Sean Kane briefing Clinton Township Supervisor Bob Cannon and others at the site
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Sean Kane, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency:
“Our efforts are going to be primarily to reduce the imminent threat, which would be the removal of everything above-ground here, namely the compressed gas cylinders of N2O, cans of ultra-refined butane and the lithium-ion batteries that are in the vape pens and the cartridges.”
5. Various of crew members at work
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Bob Cannon, Clinton Township supervisor:
“When they’re done, this property will be pristine and it will go for sale. And we will have something here that we could be proud of again in our community.”
7. Various of the site
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Bob Cannon, Clinton Township supervisor:
“What I need to know is they’re here on-site in charge cleaning this up. And the prosecutor is going to make sure that somebody pays for this crime that was committed.”
9. A crew member at work
STORYLINE:
The federal government is leading a cleanup of the hazardous remains of a Detroit-area storage site for vaping supplies, five months after explosions destroyed the building, sent debris flying for miles and killed a man.
The property in Macomb County’s Clinton Township was stuffed with vape pens, butane canisters, nitrous oxide cylinders and lithium batteries. While loads of debris have been recovered in the surrounding area, there’s still more work to be done.
“Our efforts are going to be primarily to reduce the imminent threat,” Sean Kane of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency told reporters Tuesday.
Behind a fence, the 28,000-square-foot property is in ruins. The roof collapsed during the March fire and explosions. Mounds of charred, twisted metal framed by a few steel girders still remain.
Authorities said the disaster was caused by poor storage of volatile materials. The owner has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of a 19-year-old man who was struck by a nitrous oxide canister a quarter-mile away.
Kane said the EPA took on a larger role in the cleanup when talks between the government and responsible parties reached a standstill. He said the estimated cost so far is $2.5 million.
“When they’re done, this property will be pristine and it will go for sale. And we will have something here that we could be proud of again,” Clinton Township’s top public official, Supervisor Bob Cannon, said Tuesday.
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