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Fire in the Night - The Piper Alpha Disaster (Paperback, On Demand)
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Fire in the Night - The Piper Alpha Disaster (Paperback, On Demand)
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The fire was visible seventy miles away as a distant, flickering
flame on the horizon. The heat generated was so intense that a
helicopter could only circle at a perimeter of one mile. Flying at
a height of 200 feet, the air crew saw that the tongues of flame
extended high above the rotor blades. On the surface a converted
fishing trawler inched as close as possible, but the paint on the
vessel's hull blistered and burnt, and the rope handrails began to
smoke. In the water surrounding the inferno, men's heads could be
seen bobbing like apples as their yellow hard hats melted with the
heat. At the centre stood, at least for now, the Piper Alpha oil
platform, 110 miles northeast of Aberdeen, once the world's single
largest oil producer. On 6 July 1988, its final day, it was ablaze
with 226 men onboard. Only sixty-one would survive. Fire in the
Night tells, for the first time and in gripping detail, the
devastating story of that summer evening. Combining interviews with
survivors, witness statements and transcripts from the official
enquiry into the disaster, this is the moving and vivid tale of
what happened on that fateful night inside an oil rig inferno.
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