Quadruple blast drops stacks at plant that built WWII tanks.
With simultaneous blasts that were reportedly heard from miles around, an implosion brought down four brick smokestacks in Birdsboro at 3 p.m. Friday. In about nine seconds, four smokestacks at the old Armorcast plant fell to the ground.
“I was busy talking to her and I didn’t even get to video it,” said April Mieczkowski, who missed the fall.
The implosion of the stacks at the former Armorcast site was initially set to take place at 10 a.m., however, it was delayed due to a paperwork issue with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, officials said.
Steel-making in Birdsboro dates back to the 1700s. More recent history of the site involved making the armor for tanks used by the U.S. military during World War II and the Korean War.
