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Location: Collingwood
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 |  | Blowing up an abandoned house (Bowmanville)
< on 1/29/2012 1:26 AM >
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CLARINGTON -- Bowmanville residents almost five kilometers away might hear a Holt Road house being blown up in a staged film explosion on Sunday, Jan. 29 around noon.
"We're detonating 75 different blasts in three stages in the course of 3.5 seconds.... If the house comes down in the blast, all the better for us. We think it may," said James Sled, special effects co-ordinator for NEXUS Canada, a special effects and fire arms company for the entertainment industry.
The explosion will be felt for several hundred metres, visible for 2.5 kms and heard for 4.5 kms, according to Mr. Sled.
On Saturday, Jan. 28, a group of special effects experts were busy rigging a dilapidated old house on Holt Road with explosives for a film project they would not name. This Week was the only media outlet to gain access to the film site.
Workers were busy breaking the glass in the windows, which will be replaced with clear plastic wrap. Small cannon-like pipes were aimed at front and side windows and the front door. In the pipes was a mixture of Styrofoam and bits of wood to simulate debris, explained Greg Cunnane, special effect pyrotechnician. The blast lifts and ignites fuel added to the mix to shoot flames through the window.
"It may look like a house blowing up, but it's all on the outside," said Mr. Cunnane, who started his career in military school and then became a firefighter before going into special effects.
Mr. Cunnane said six inches of sand are also packed into the cannon to slow the blast down enough to create a good effect for the cameras. Nitroglycerine, which looks like baby powder, will be put around the windows so they catch fire in the blast, he explained.
"(Nitroglycerine) is so safe (now). It takes 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit to blow it up," said Mr. Cunnane.
The white cement block building's last resident ran a boxing training facility on the main level and lived on the second storey. The walls still display newspaper and magazine clippings of famous boxers; a support for a punching bag is still mounted into the ceiling.
Mr. Sled said his company spent two days analyzing the site, two days of prep -- which included removing almost everything flammable -- and now are working on two days of pyrotechnics.
"It can be (dangerous) if you don't know what you're doing. The elements we deal with are extremely dangerous -- explosives and a hell of a lot of pressure," said Mr. Sled.
The Holt Road blast is a "sizable explosion" in the film and entertainment industry, according to Mr. Sled. The blast will be focused out the front, on one side and the roof of the home.
The explosion will be a "static shot" Mr. Sled explained, meaning there will be no actors running from the house to dive into the dirt as the building explodes. The actors -- whose identities are a closely guarded secret -- were in Clarington earlier this week to film in front of the house.
"Roll cameras, do a countdown and on zero - boom. We get one shot at this. This is a one-take here," said Mr. Sled.
Holt Road will be closed to the public from Bloor Street to Baseline Road on Sunday, Jan. 29 from 11 a.m. for approximately two hours. If there are high wind conditions on Sunday, the blast could be delayed.
The house will be left burning for some time for the cameras. A private fire suppression company has been hired to put the flames out.
Neighbours, local emergency services and Ontario Power Generation Darlington Nuclear have been warned about the detonation.
Watch tomorrow for continuing coverage on the Bowmanville blast.
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L'Ali
 
Location: Clarington
Gender: Female
Behind every damsel is a fire breathing dragon
| | Re: Blowing up an abandoned house (Bowmanville)
<Reply # 1 on 1/29/2012 4:48 AM >
| | | | I should be able to hear this from my place. Explains why someone say them clearing this place out a few weeks ago. Huh?!
Everything is sweetened by risk.
-- Alexander Smith
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fedge
Location: Gaud Corners, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
you blight up my life™®
| |  | Re: Blowing up an abandoned house (Bowmanville)
<Reply # 2 on 1/29/2012 8:48 AM >
| | | | I drove by Saturday morning and they had cleared out the front yard of all the debris and weeds. It was the cleanest I've ever seen that yard!
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L'Ali
Location: Clarington
Gender: Female
Behind every damsel is a fire breathing dragon
| | Re: Blowing up an abandoned house (Bowmanville)
<Reply # 3 on 1/29/2012 4:54 PM >
| | | | First three blasts just went. I can hear it clear as day.
Everything is sweetened by risk.
-- Alexander Smith
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Skye_Ann
Location: Kitchener, Ontario
Gender: Female
I seem to have Irritable Owl Syndrome...
| | | Re: Blowing up an abandoned house (Bowmanville)
<Reply # 4 on 1/29/2012 10:40 PM >
| | | | Are you fucking kidding me?
This is how they dispose of our wonderful UE locations now?
Fuck. >:l
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L'Ali
Location: Clarington
Gender: Female
Behind every damsel is a fire breathing dragon
| | Re: Blowing up an abandoned house (Bowmanville)
<Reply # 5 on 1/30/2012 3:08 AM >
| | | | I went by to see what they did this afternoon. See for yourself.
Everything is sweetened by risk.
-- Alexander Smith
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bandi
 
Lippy Mechanic Bastard
Location: Trent Hills, ON
Gender: Male
A liminal mind is all I've ever known.
| |  | Re: Blowing up an abandoned house (Bowmanville)
<Reply # 6 on 1/30/2012 3:19 AM >
| | | | My uncle was there... said it was a pretty big dud in person but looked pretty cool on film.
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fedge
Location: Gaud Corners, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
you blight up my life™®
| | | Re: Blowing up an abandoned house (Bowmanville)
<Reply # 8 on 1/30/2012 5:47 AM >
| | | | Wha? I was hoping for it to be blown to bits. Well, at least there's a POE now, LOL...
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Intrinsic
Location: Collingwood
Gender: Male
| | Re: Blowing up an abandoned house (Bowmanville)
<Reply # 9 on 1/30/2012 12:08 PM >
| | | | http://bcove.me/8epn2iqq
Rumoured to be an Our Lady Peace video.
[last edit 1/30/2012 12:12 PM by Intrinsic - edited 1 times]
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jerm IX
Location: Somewhere, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
If you can't find something nice to say...say it on UER.
| | | Re: Blowing up an abandoned house (Bowmanville)
<Reply # 10 on 1/30/2012 1:01 PM >
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Oh man, couldn't they have just left the house alone and just blown up Our Lady Peace? Or at least blown up the house with Raine Maida inside?
I saw them live at the Vancouver Olympics unfortunately, I had teenage suicide attempts that were more pleasurable.
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photocbear
Location: Ontario
Gender: Male
| | Re: Blowing up an abandoned house (Bowmanville)
<Reply # 11 on 1/30/2012 1:05 PM >
| | | | Posted by jerm IX
Oh man, couldn't they have just left the house alone and just blown up Our Lady Peace? Or at least blown up the house with Raine Maida inside?
I saw them live at the Vancouver Olympics unfortunately, I had teenage suicide attempts that were more pleasurable.
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Dude I hear you. I have a ton of respect for Raine as a songwriter and producer but that voice is awful live, just awful.
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Skye_Ann
Location: Kitchener, Ontario
Gender: Female
I seem to have Irritable Owl Syndrome...
| | | Re: Another Bowmanville house bites the dust
<Reply # 12 on 1/30/2012 1:29 PM >
| | | | Oh god... They ruined a pretty house for a shitty music video.
Isn't that what they have CGI effects for?
What morons.
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dallas
Location: seattle
Gender: Female
So long and thanks for all the fish
| | | Re: Another Bowmanville house bites the dust
<Reply # 13 on 1/30/2012 1:36 PM >
| | | | I knew i hated our lady peace for a reason!!
amazing wife to Narf. Don't look him up or ill cut you. |
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bandi
Lippy Mechanic Bastard
Location: Trent Hills, ON
Gender: Male
A liminal mind is all I've ever known.
| | | Re: Another Bowmanville house bites the dust
<Reply # 14 on 1/30/2012 3:16 PM >
| | | | Our Lady Peace was incredible.
15 years ago.
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bandi
Lippy Mechanic Bastard
Location: Trent Hills, ON
Gender: Male
A liminal mind is all I've ever known.
| | | Re: Another Bowmanville house bites the dust
<Reply # 15 on 1/30/2012 3:17 PM >
| | | | Posted by fedge
Wha? I was hoping for it to be blown to bits. Well, at least there's a POE now, LOL...
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Yeah, if you're gonna blow it up, at least level the damn thing!
hi i like cars |
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L'Ali
Location: Clarington
Gender: Female
Behind every damsel is a fire breathing dragon
| | Re: Another Bowmanville house bites the dust
<Reply # 16 on 1/30/2012 3:41 PM >
| | | | I'm surprised they just left it so open and exposed. By mid afternoon the place was cleared out. I ran into a guy who was taking pics as well who said he knew the owner and that he'd just rented out the place before it became empty. Bless him, he was telling me to check out the back and ooh look at this as I'm trecking around mud in good shoes.
A possible OLP video? Really? *groan*
I can't see the city leaving this place so open for long. It will need to come down. The corner of the foundation at one corner has a big chunk missing.
The stills of the fire look sweet 
Everything is sweetened by risk.
-- Alexander Smith
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diehard
Location: Ottawa, ON
Gender: Male
| | Re: Another Bowmanville house bites the dust
<Reply # 17 on 1/30/2012 5:36 PM >
| | | | Oh man, the boxing club house?
*sigh*. Scratch one on my list to see that isn't worth crap.
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IndianaTeach
Im lovin' those knobs!
| | Re: Another Bowmanville house bites the dust
<Reply # 18 on 2/3/2012 11:28 AM >
| | | | And now for the real mystery...what happened to V. Hunt who once lived here and ran the boxing club? Leaving pictures of his family behind is not normal...has anybody looked into this?
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dallas
Location: seattle
Gender: Female
So long and thanks for all the fish
| | | Re: Another Bowmanville house bites the dust
<Reply # 19 on 2/3/2012 1:56 PM >
| | | | I would totally agree. Someone should research where mr hunt went...
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