The attacks hit camps and weapons storage depots, sending plumes of smoke over the city, according to local residents cited by AP.
When a deadly accident in 1902 cast a harsh spotlight on the Vanderbilt depot's impenetrable whirl of smoke, steam and soot, his successors razed the building, replacing it in 1913 with a best-in-class terminal capable of handling more than a thousand electric railway cars.
Absent the smothering smoke, soot and cinders, the depot could be expanded on the same footprint by delivering trains to platforms on two levels, the lower for suburban commuters and the upper for long-distance trains.
On the morning of March 28, Air Force jets bombed an oil depot south of Karbala, sending a huge plume of black smoke into the air.
Air Force jets bombed a fuel depot north of Najaf, sending up a huge plume of smoke that the wind pushed toward the First Brigade's headquarters.
Fears that a cloud of toxic smoke from the blaze at the Hertfordshire oil depot could descend on south-east England, blanketing London and countryside from Wiltshire to Kent with dangerous pollutants, appeared to temporarily recede yesterday thanks to a combination of high air pressure and a heroic firefighting effort on the ground.
Olympic banners around town, colorful pictures of rocks and curlers on storefronts and the new communal enthusiasm are helping Ogden spiff up -- and improve upon what it has always been, a rugged, Western depot with rail lines carving the valley floor and factories belching smoke to mountain-top heights.
A barge offloading gasoline at an oil depot in Staten Island exploded with earthquake force yesterday, shaking businesses, homes and nerves for miles around as towering black smoke spread a pall over much of New York City.
With fire at the main fuel depot, hit by rockets, still raging Thursday night for the fourth day in a row throwing a cloud of dark smoke and dangerous fumes over the city of 2 million, the handover ceremony is a mere protocol issue, not a legal one.
Each time I leave the Moscow apartment I have shared part of the year for 10 years, my Russian landlady carefully removes the D batteries from my two Home Depot smoke detectors, and stores them for my next stay even though they have already saved us from a major kitchen fire.
