Huge corning plant in the middle of Wilmington on fire. See below.

http://www.wect.com/Global/story.asp?S=12178337

3/21/2010 3:17:23 PM

FAIL

UPDATE: Corning plant fire now under control

As soon as I clicked the link.

3/21/2010 3:18:33 PM

lol this is hardly in the middle of wilmington

[Edited on March 21, 2010 at 3:20 PM. Reason : ]

3/21/2010 3:19:09 PM

^ Do not lie.

I was always a little weary of you.

3/21/2010 3:20:47 PM

won't be much of an internship for me this summer if the place burns down

3/21/2010 3:21:28 PM

they probably going to hire a lot of interns to clean that shit up now

3/21/2010 3:21:47 PM

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=310+North+College+Road,+Wilmington,+NC+28405-3590+(Corning+Inc)&sll=34.237431,-77.903496&sspn=0.111261,0.222988&gl=us&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=310+N+College+Rd,+Wilmington,+New+Hanover,+North+Carolina+28405&ll=34.24104,-77.864056&spn=0.111256,0.222988&z=13

Thats pretty much surrounded by wilmington.

3/21/2010 3:23:15 PM

it's across from the "welcome to wilmington" sign which i would say is the northern end
i wasn't talking about the city limits

i'd say the middle of wilmington is like where the mall is

3/21/2010 3:29:47 PM

Goodnight, sweet prince

3/21/2010 3:38:02 PM

Quote :

"i'd say the middle of wilmington is like where the mall is"

3/21/2010 3:39:46 PM

I will concede the point....


....sweet prince

3/21/2010 6:05:03 PM

they blocked off 40, you have to go through castle hayne and shit to get to the 252/919

3/21/2010 6:07:29 PM

holy shit, I probably would have seen that but i'm still recovering from wing fling which was awesome

3/21/2010 6:32:18 PM

i used to live right over there for a year and a half.

3/21/2010 7:08:31 PM

my wife's dad works there. I just showed her the picture and she called him and asked about it.

3/21/2010 7:37:17 PM

Quote :

"I probably would have seen that but i'm still recovering from wing fling which was awesome"

After they got rid of the byob. forced everyone to drink bud light products and moved it the battle ship, it ain't the same any more.

3/21/2010 7:40:38 PM

what does that place manufacture?

3/21/2010 7:51:43 PM

they do a lot of stuff. my father-in-law works with fiber optics

he said that the smoke detectors didn't go off b/c the fire was above them (in the ceiling/roof area). a plane flying over saw it and reported it. the only people there right now are people just fixing things and investigating. everyone else got the night off.

3/21/2010 7:54:04 PM

I'm an engineer there. We're the worlds largest optical fiber manufacturer. Thats all I'm allowed to say.

3/21/2010 8:01:26 PM

lol thanks for the insider info

3/21/2010 8:37:22 PM

3/21/2010 8:38:03 PM

FWIW. My buddy was onsite helping put out the fire. It was contained pretty quickly (as you can see from how quickly the news article changed) and also.. Corning is pretty "well contained" for such a plant and is more on the edge of Wilmington. Not "right in the middle". AKA close to where 40 ends and S. College Rd. begins.

[Edited on March 22, 2010 at 12:56 AM. Reason : sp]

3/22/2010 12:55:15 AM

^^^^Welcome to the Aperature Science Enrichment Center.

3/22/2010 1:03:36 AM

The fire must have been caused by someone getting through the training and getting their free cake.

3/22/2010 6:46:51 AM

yeh, not in the middle of wilmington, it's on the edge. I go by there all the time. that really sucks.

3/22/2010 8:49:44 AM