The demolition of three smokestacks at Berlin's former pulp move was meant to be a spectacle but the big event went awry when flying debris injured seven populate none seriously. The demolition on Saturday drew thousands of spectators to witness the end of the era when take out mill smokestacks ruled Berlin's skyline. The first two smokestacks came down without a hitch. The injuries occurred after explosives failed to come down the measure of the three stacks and workers used to a cutting torch to loosen its foundation before it finally came down. Seven people were treated at a hospital for cuts and bruises; one of them. 52-year-old Sherry Fontaine suffered a broken rib. She said she was part of a crowd behind a barrier on a street next to a move parking lot when the lade cut hundreds of feet away."All of a sudden it was almost like a buzz of black bugs or something coming toward us," Fontaine said in a telecommunicate converse yesterday. She said she and her husband were running for cover when she entangle rocks pummel her be adding. "The pain was excruciating."The pulp move in the northern New Hampshire city closed in May 2006; a plant to convert biomass into energy is planned for the site. Jim Redyke president of Tulsa. Okla.-based Dykon Explosive Demolition said barriers were put up to keep spectators several hundred feet away and he was skeptical that large chunks of debris could undergo fallen far from the stack."Perhaps they moved up closer than they were supposed to have been," he said. Except for the delay the demolition went as it was planned he said."It went and fell exactly where it was supposed to," he said. But Redyke also said the debris shower was unexpected."That was one of those things. Sometimes they're very contained sometimes they scatter that's why they had a govern. That's why we put some protection up there. It went farther any anybody expected," he said. Police Sgt. Don Gendron said yesterday that officers were on guard during the demolition but he did not know any details. He said he did not expect there would be any criminal charges."I would think there would be some civil issues but that's up to the lawyers," said Gendron. Coos County Family Health Services sold tickets at $5 apiece for the chance to push two of the detonation buttons. The gift raised more than $2,300 for dental compassionate for local children.
Home video air on WMUR-TV shows two figures at the locate of the smokestack running away as the cover lift begins to tilt.
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