CdA Firm Blows Up Wrong-Way Stack

A Coeur d’Alene company was handling the demolition of that smoke stack that fell in the wrong direction Wednesday in Springfield, Ohio. No injuries were reported when the former Ohio Edison Mad River Power Plant’s 275-foot smoke stack fell, knocking out power for more than 8000 customers and crushing several pieces of power equipment. Lisa Kelly, the president and owner of the Coeur’dAlene, Idaho-based Advanced Explosives Demolition Inc., which handled the demolition, told the News-Sun that the explosives detonated correctly, but an undetected crack on the south side of the tower pulled it in a different direction. “Nobody’s happy with things that go wrong in life, and sometimes it’s out of our hands and beyond anybody’s prediction. … We’re all extremely thankful no one was injured”/ Associated Press . More here . (AP Photo/Springfield News-Sun, Bill Lackey)