Final preparations are being made ahead of Saturday’s blast.
The old Millard Fillmore Hospital in Buffalo is scheduled to be imploded on Saturday morning (local time).
Details about the implosion were revealed yesterday during a news conference at the nearby Osinski Parking Ramp on Linwood Avenue at Balcom Street, just southeast of the hospital, which will host media and residents of the immediate area for the event. While encouraging residents to watch the event on TV for safety reasons, officials also said a public viewing area will be set up at Delaware and West Delavan avenues.
“If you haven’t seen one, it’s cool,” John Yensan, president of Ontario Specialty Contracting, said about the pending implosion. The Buffalo-based company, founded in 1997, is working with Dykon Explosive Demolition Corp. of Tulsa, Okla.
Yensan said between 300 and 500 pounds of explosives will be used. Shaped charges will sever the structural steel columns and dynamite on each column will provide a “kick” to bring down the building in its footprint at Gates Circle.
Read more here, and be sure to check back on Saturday for the first footage of what promises to be an epic blast.
