Fertilizer plant explosion in Texas

[CodeRedR51]

That is likely just dust or what have you from the force of the explosion.

Nah, looks like something else. Hover your mouse over the little circle that follows the player track and use the arrow keys to go through it frame by frame.

 

[nobuffalo]

Could be too that the first explosion was a container of chemicals and that explosion got to a second one. Of course I don't know the site so there may only be one container.

That's probably more likely.

Nah, looks like something else. Hover your mouse over the little circle that follows the player track and use the arrow keys to go through it frame by frame.

Whatever it is it's freaking nuts. I never would have imagined an explosion that large.

 

[McLaren]

Could be too that the first explosion was a container of chemicals and that explosion got to a second one. Of course I don't know the site so there may only be one container.

I'm assuming this as well. The initial tank exploded & caused a tank/container/etc. next to it explode directly after.

They said there was still 1 tank intact, but were afraid to approach it right now.

 

[nobuffalo]

I'm assuming this as well. The initial tank exploded & caused a tank/container/etc. next to it explode directly after.

Well I don't think what we are seeing is a second explosion per se, but an eruption of something cause by the initial explosion. Maybe I'm getting too technical, maybe I don't know what I'm talking about.

 

[Ken]

You can actually spot the shockwave. Amazing.

 

[KinLM]

I live extremely close to where this happened. Extremely scary, so many people hurt and the news channels were flooded.

I don't know if any of you have seen this, but I really hope this man's daughter is okay. Sorry if this is the wrong link and sorry if this has been posted.

http://youtu.be/LNJ5V-X5QZ8

Very traumatic for all of us around here.

EDIT: Also, all these reports of "50-60" dead are completely untrue. No more than 10 right now. A few firefighters are unaccounted for, but 50-100 dead is total BS. Thanks to the OP for updating to correct number.

 

[CodeRedR51]

^^^ There was only one "report" from CBS and I took it down. Thought we had moved past that.

 

[a6m5]

I hadn't heard the latest number of the casualties. That's a great news, actually. I totally bought the earlier report of 60 dead.

 

[KinLM]

^^^ There was only one "report" from CBS and I took it down. Thought we had moved past that.

I just thanked you for taking it down, you know.

We haven't moved past it really, because alot of the news stations around here are STILL saying 50-60 deaths. It's all a bunch of lies but thanks to them, these false rumors will continue for a while until people realize that it's garbage.

 

[CodeRedR51]

I just thanked you for taking it down, you know.

You edited while I was posting. Didn't see it.

 

[KinLM]

You edited while I was posting. Didn't see it.

Oh. Okay. Sorry about that.

Anyways, thanks again for getting correct numbers. This is far from a minor thing but I'm annoyed that many my friends from other parts of the US think that this has a death count over 50.

 

[Nicksfix]

Damn .... just damn ! Thoughts and prayers to the affected families.

It's should be interesting to see what the final verdict is on this one as to how this happened. Hopefully, it can be classified as just an "Industrial accident".

With a vast amount of ammonium nitrate at this plant, it's no wonder it exploded like it did.

 

[Cano]

I hadn't seen any vids of the explosion as YouTube is blocked at work. It's magnitude is difficult to believe

 

[Omnis]

Wow. If you slow it down, it looks like there were two explosions. The initial blast, and then a secondary blast of something white in color.

Probably phosphorus.

 

[disinfected]

This one is just still mind blowing. The pictures are just incredible with that cloud it produced. From how violent the explosion looked from far away it's amazing that anyone could survive being close to something like that.

 

[xXKingJoshXx]

Does anyone know if the houses in the area are going to have to be demolished? There was a smaller (but still large) explosion here a few miles south of where I live (it was a few idiots trying to get some insurance money, ended up brutally killing a teacher and his wife and leveled some houses) and even the houses that appeared to be unaffected had to be demolished. The houses are further away but the explosion is larger so who knows.

Edit: This was earlier this year.


Also, I can only imagine how loud that was. There was a "terrorist attack" (it was a few pipe bombs buried in my neighborhood park that blew up at night) just a few hundred feet away from where I live and it sounded like a shotgun going off next go my ear.


Edit pt. 2: This was 2 or 3 years ago

 

[disinfected]

Also, I can only imagine how loud that was.

Have you seen some of the videos of the explosion? The sound was insane.

 

[xXKingJoshXx]

I'm on my school computer right now so I can't watch any videos or see most of the pictures. They're all blocked. I could at least see one or two pictures though.

 

[CodeRedR51]

Death toll climbs to 12.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/20/u...fter-texas-explosion.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

 

[Slash]

CNN's a bit behind.

5 firefighters & 1 police officer amongst the first to be reported deceased. The firefighters are believed to be the volunteers who went in just 30 minutes before the explosion. Investigators say we won't know the full damage until sunrise.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...4b26a0-a7e5-11e2-9e1c-bb0fb0c2edd9_story.html

I'm with R1600 on this one. Looks like a nuke went off.

Okay, let's say that they did know that it was a fertilizer plant. Who expects that kind of an explosion? I was certainly surprised at the magnitude from the video. Most people would expect a little fiery plume every here and there. I certainly would...

I wouldn't know what to do, other than get the hell away.

Death toll climbs to 12.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/20/u...fter-texas-explosion.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

So sad.

 

[G.T.Ace]

I think this picture above is from a 2008 explosion of a different plant.
And it only looks like a nuke, because there's no direct comparison. The mushroom cloud of a nuke is usually a lot bigger.

EDIT: The cloud in Hiroshima was 13 km high. And that was a rather small bomb.

 

[CodeRedR51]

Nope, recent photo. Also, 1 more person added to the death list. 13 total now, over 200 injured.

Here's another photo for comparison:

 

[CodeRedR51]

Up to 14 deaths now.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57580428/death-toll-at-14-in-texas-fertilizer-plant-blast/

 

[Grayfox]

I heard 4 deaths.

3 from the bombings and the cop that got shot.

 

[KinLM]

I heard 4 deaths.

3 from the bombings and the cop that got shot.

You're in the wrong thread. Check the title.

 

[Grayfox]

You're in the wrong thread. Check the title.

Oh lol

Too many tabs opened.

 

[CodeRedR51]

http://rt.com/usa/texas-blast-dhs-disclosure-149/

The fertilizer plant which exploded, killing at least 14 and partially razing a small Texas town, failed to alert the DHS it was storing 1,350 times the amount of ammonium nitrate allowable without mandatory safety checks, Reuters reports...

Fertilizer plants and depots must report to the DHS when they hold 400 pounds or more of ammonium nitrate due to its widespread use in the manufacture of bombs.

However, at the time of the blast, at least 540,000 pounds (270 tons) of ammonium nitrate was in a storage building, according to recent filings with both the Texas Department of State Health Services and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) which were not passed on to the DHS. The plant was also holding anhydrous ammonia and several other agriculture chemicals.

Pentagon explosives experts say that a blast entailing 270 tons of ammonium nitrate would dwarf virtually any non-nuclear weapons in the US arsenal.

 

[homeforsummer]

Yup. Some huge blasts with that stuff. Can't get the link now as I'm on my phone, but there's a wiki page of largest non-nuclear man-made explosions. Ammonium nitrate has been responsible for a few biggies.

Think it was another Texas one which was one of the biggest actually - a ship docked at a port holding thousands of tonnes of the stuff.

 

[Famine]

Yup. Some huge blasts with that stuff. Can't get the link now as I'm on my phone, but there's a wiki page of largest non-nuclear man-made explosions. Ammonium nitrate has been responsible for a few biggies.

Think it was another Texas one which was one of the biggest actually - a ship docked at a port holding thousands of tonnes of the stuff.

It's got nothing on PEPCON in Nevada.

And, with you knowing where I live, have a look at the projected blast radius for what nearly happened as BASF in the 1990s and what would happen to CATS and SABIC at Seal Sands... Also bear in mind there's a nuclear power station at Hartlepool well inside that radius. And Able UK, which breaks decommissioned ships full of asbestos and PCBs...

 

[CodeRedR51]

It's got nothing on PEPCON in Nevada.

Saw of that that on YouTube.