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IGNITION POINT
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Truck drivers were seen running from their vehicles on the section of the site run by fuel company Total just minutes before the blast occurred. It was soon established that they had seen a large vapour cloud.
How this vapour leak started is now at the centre of a multi-agency investigation involving the Health & Executive. the police, the fire ser forensic experts and the oil industry.
This is likely to take months to coml but it seems the effects of the leak r made worse by the weather condition Jon Smith (above) says that it was at the time: "These temperatures cre a still atmosphere which wouldn't E the vapours to evaporate or dissir If it had been warmer, the vapour w have evaporated."
Insiders believe the ignition poin the fire was probably off site; it c have been anything from a ciga thrown on to the ground to a spark In passing vehicle.
Fire investigators point out that source of ignition was with the drivers would not be here to tell their tale.