frame grab courtesy BBC

The following morning on BBC 1 breakfast TV Mike Brennan gave an eyewitness account of shooting the fire from the BBC helicopter.

BBC News 24's helicopter is flying over London. The views look beautiful when the camera is at the level of the smoke - below its dark and murky and above is blue and bright.

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See attachments for the most amazing pictures from the BBC News helicopter of London and the South taken minutes ago.

http://www.zhe.ca/2005/12/hemel-oil-depot-smoke-video/

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5jerry

dang dude thats pretty wicked

 John_t1 12/13/2005 9:30:10 PM Level: 23 Voting Power: 3.2 Total Posts: 188 Joined: 9/16/2005

Picture quality is awesome.

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posted on 11-12-2005 at 06:49 AM

The BBC is showing some dramatic arial shots from their helicopter.

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Towering Cumulus

Posts: 33 Location: Central Dorset

I'd love to say I took this myself but this was from the BBC Helicopter around Sunday 1:30pm (as shown on BBC News 24)

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Posted 13/12/2005 4:10 AM (#305171 - in reply to #305076)

Subject: RE: Satellite images and photographs showing Herts explosion smoke plume?

Singlecell Posts: 163 Location: London

Mark Steele - 12/12/2005 9:56 PM

That was the armageddon shot for me...shows the full extent of the spread of the smoke.

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Michael Jones (tourajsig...), December 11th, 2005.Amazing footage on News 24 from a helicopter several miles distant - flying under the base of the smoke plume so you can see it curve round with the prevailing winds. Someone clever should do a screencap.

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Petrochemical Explosion in Hemel Hempstead

Further to my earlier post, seems that the noise from the fuel going up could be heard in the Netherlands. The BBC has some amazing pictures including an aerial shot of the pollution caused -

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I think BBC is doing excellent job. Live pictures from helicopter are amazing. What happened to SKY copter????

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So another Breaking News day and all the networks are doing blanket coverage of the event.

BBC doing well by broadcasting pictures from helicopter. captainbaseballbatboy

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.or for that matter the BBC - their coverage has been excellent

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"RE: In the Hemel" Sunday 11th December 16:26 PM

Seen the helicopter footage on BBC news? Completely dark skies for miles around the area

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Posted bAegir Hallmundury at December 11, 2005 11:12 PM

Damn impressive blast though, wish I'd been (relatively) nearby with my camera. I think the BBC helicopter earned its keep today with those images it got.

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Last edited by Matrix on 11th Dec 2005 2:05pm - 1 time in total

So the bigges explosion in a decade doesn't warrent this reaction? This is big news and make no mistake about that. Some of the amazing pictures coming out (particually from the BBC Helicopter, before it need to refuel...) showed the awesome scale of the incident.

 

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