Future News Predicted Details About Industrial Plant Fire

Future News Predicted Details About Industrial Plant Fire
Bill Tenuto
July 3, 2005

On June 15, 2005, I wrote "Earthquake Will Shake Southern California," in which I said:

"I can 'smell' that some kind of gas or chemical will be released when this earthquake occurs."

"…This jeopardizes the integrity of some kind of commercial plant or facility. This may be symbolic of a power generating station that will fail, and an indication of power outages occurring in the area where the earthquake will be felt. Also, something is wrong with the air over this commercial plant or facility. Something dark is hanging over it. It looks like a fire will take place which will burn down this commercial plant or facility."

The next day, on June 16, 2005, the earthquake I predicted hit in Yucaipa, California. This earthquake was felt in the area where I predicted it would be felt, and the force of this earthquake was horizontal, which I also had predicted. (I discuss all of this in "Magnitude 4.9 Earthquake Shakes Southern California, Verifying Future News Prediction," Future News, Home Page, left column, June 2005 archive.) But there were no reports of the earthquake causing a "commercial plant or facility" to "burn down." I decided that my prediction about a commercial plant burning down either was all wrong, or else the fire I had predicted might possibly take place at later time, perhaps because of another earthquake.

A few days later, on June 24, 2005, reports suddenly appeared on the news about a series of propane gas tank explosions at an industrial plant owned by a company called Praxair Inc. This plant did catch fire and burn to the ground, and many of the specific details about this fire closely matched the details I had predicted.

However, there was one unusual and surprising discrepancy. Instead of this fire happening in Southern California as I had predicted, this fire took place in South St. Louis, Missouri. In the note at the end of this article, I discuss what may have caused this error.

Interestingly, with the exception of getting the location wrong, other details I had predicted about the plant fire matched very well with the news reports about what actually occurred. In foreseeing these details, my gift of foresight accurately predicted "future news." Here are several examples:

1.) I had predicted in "Earthquake Will Shake Southern California":

"I can 'smell' that some kind of gas or chemical will be released…. …Also, something is wrong with the air over this commercial plant or facility. Something dark is hanging over it."

Several news reports confirmed what I had foreseen.

Commenting during live coverage of the scene of the plant explosions, CNN's Wolf Blitzer reported (CNN,
Wolf Blitzer Reports, June 24, 2005):

"You can see the flames from the explosions with black smoke billowing into the air."

When Blitzer asked a reporter from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch who was on the scene if there were any dangerous fumes in the air from chemicals, the reporter answered:

"I smell something like rubber burning."

And in an article about the explosions, printed the next day in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, this was said:

"A series of explosions at a gas plant in South St. Louis sent hundreds of fireballs, burning debris and noxious fumes skyward…."

"By Friday night, a thick gray haze was all that was left of the explosions…."

"The Fire Department was monitoring the air for sulfur and other toxic fumes…."

"Most St. Louis residents [were] happy no one was hurt in the gas explosion that ignited about 9,000 pounds of propane."
(Daphne Duret, "Shaken City residents return after fire," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 25, 2005.) www.stltoday.com

An article in The New York Times detailed that there were different kinds of "gas" involved in the fire:

"Praxair, founded in 1907, manufactures and packages liquid and compressed gases…. The products include specialty gases for electronic chip production and acetylene, oxygen and propane. The St. Louis fire chief, Sherman George, said he was concerned about the liquid gases at the site, including propane."

"Kim Bacon, public information officer for the St. Louis Fire Department, said…it was 7 p.m. before the flammable and combustible gases consumed themselves…"
(Ellen Harris, "Explosion at St. Louis Gas Plant Creates a Fiery Display," The New York Times, June 25, 2005.) www.nytimes.com

2.) I also had predicted in "Earthquake Will Shake Southern California:

"I see…smoke rising and emergency vehicles"

Again, according to Daphne Duret of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

"…the explosions caused a three-alarm blaze…"

"They raised unmanned high ladders with snorkels behind the buffer of nearby buildings. More than 70 firefighters manned 12 pumpers and two hook-and-ladder trucks with crews from four fire department ambulances."
(Daphne Duret, "Shaken City residents return after fire," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 25, 2005.)

3.) I also had predicted in "Earthquake Will Shake Southern California":

"It looks like a fire will take place which will burn down this commercial plant or facility."

Again from Daphne Duret's article:

"…the explosions caused a three-alarm blaze that burned the Praxair building to the ground."
(Daphne Duret, "Shaken City residents return after fire," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 25, 2005.)

4.) Finally, I also had predicted in "Earthquake Will Shake Southern California":

"This may be symbolic of a power generating station that will fail, and an indication of power outages in the area…."

According to Ellen Harris of The New York Times:

"Kim Bacon, public information officer for the St. Louis Fire Department, said… 'We still have a lot to
do. A lot of the area is without power. Some electric lines are down from flying debris and some were shut down intentionally.' "
(Ellen Harris, "Explosion at St. Louis Gas Plant Creates a Fiery Display," The New York Times, June 25, 2005.)
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Note: Two seemingly dissimilar events--an earthquake in Southern California and a plant explosion and fire in South St. Louis, Missouri--somehow had combined themselves in my mind's eye into one vision. For what reason did my vision connect the images from these two events? Because my vision is attuned to focusing on "future news" reports, a closer look at the news reports about the plant fire might be helpful.

On June 24, 2005, one of the first headlines I saw about the plant fire appeared on a Fox News Alert during live coverage of the explosions. The headline said,

"Explosion Rocks Industrial Plant in South St. Louis."

And another article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch had this to say:

"It was a neighborhood under siege Friday as fire shot angrily into the hazy sky and metal gas containers rained down like missiles on the houses and cars."

"Just a block away from the explosive fire, the Redbird Carriers building rattled like it had been hit by an earthquake."
(Todd C. Frankel, Jeremy Kohler and Greg Johnson, ""Debris from explosion fell like missiles in plant's neighborhood," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 24, 2005.) www.stltoday.com

After considering the circumstances of both the earthquake and the plant fire, I have figured out one possible explanation for why my vision made these two events seem like they were one. First, each event occurred in a location associated with the word south. The earthquake was in Southern California, and the explosions and fire were in South St. Louis. This may have played a small part in causing my vision to shift from one event to the other. But more importantly, the explosions in South St. Louis rocked the area and made the area feel, as stated in the above article, like it "had been hit by an earthquake." My vision seems somehow to have locked in on the earthquake-like rocking and rattling in South St. Louis and associated this with the shaking felt near the real earthquake in Southern California.

I welcome readers' comments.

© 2005 by William L. Tenuto