The in-depth story of the seven most devastating explosion disasters.
0:00 The West, Texas, Explosion
What started as a routine fire call quickly escalated into an unimaginable nightmare. First responders who rushed toward danger, unaware their equipment would be no match for a massive explosion.
0:11:19 The Enschede Fireworks Disaster
The Enschede Fireworks disaster turned a minor incident into a neighborhood-destroying calamity.
0:26:41 The Olympic Pipeline Tragedy
Corporate neglect transformed a serene woodland creek into a hellish inferno that claimed young lives and forever scarred a community.
0:39:00 The Phillips Explosion
An entire corporation systematically prioritized production over safety, creating a powder keg that ultimately consumed the very community that trusted them.
0:50:29 The Exploding Town
Hutchinson became known as “the exploding town” where science struggled to explain why buildings were suddenly being torn apart from within.
1:02:00 The Beirut Blast
Beirut was shook by the most powerful non-nuclear explosion in recent history when 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate ignited.
1:15:49 The Exploding Whale Incident
A spectacular miscalculation that sent chunks of marine mammal raining down on spectators and cars in a disaster so peculiar it borders on comedy.
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“Dad I can’t hear! I can’t hear get out please!” It’s so sad I can’t even 😭
Pepcon in Nevada was a big one. The video of the shockwave was crazy.
One thing for sure , it’s not safe to live anywhere near an industrial plant of any kind
OSHA always showed up after disasters and now republicans have ended osha.
Little information from Indonesian, the second explosion, are like the same one that was on Pamekasan, Java, Indonesia, and that was look like the same tbh, but in Pamekasan the explosion were in a field, and at the Pamekasan tragedy, there one man died because of the explosion of the Firework
Love that this video is just an entire summary of why America is a Third World country where inspectors either don't care or are bribed.
Yeah, when that first explosion went off, I was going to school. I walked outside my door. I feel as a giant blast push my door back in breaking glass shattering. I felt it and I like not even that far away from that place exploded.
18:10 The blast knocked the self confidence out of them. Thats nuts!
I am gobsmacked by the information that the Dutch allowed a fireworks factory to be located in a densely populated town.
Companies that get fined for infractions by OSHA aren't nearly fined enough. They get fined millions of dollars when the company is a multi-billion dollar oil company. It isn't even a slap on the wrist. More of a "you pay us this and we'll go away and business as usual. See you in 20 years or the next time you F up.
What! The Halifax ammonium nitrate fertilizer ship didn't make the list? It leveled the town and the ship's anchor weighing over a ton was found over a mile away and it got beat out by a big fish? (ok, mammal)
20 minutes of giant explosions
1h and 4 minutes of dark records talking
W video tho
0:32 Damn didn't that 9-1-1 Lone Star was based of on reality. That's not even funny or cool that they made a tv show about it
Insane the port of Tianjin isn’t on here, it’s the most insane explosion I’ve ever seen lol
so the crew knew what was there ..and its dangerously explosive..but still went..
Explosions are the scariest!!!
Have you heard of the giant explosion in albania in like the 2000’s
I thought anhydrous ammonia was used by criminals to make meth, not morphine or heroin. I thought heroin and morphine comes from the Poppy plant if I'm not mistaken.
35:03
Im lebanese and the last one was in lebanon Beirut
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