http://area76.u--3.com/useless/files..._explosion.wmv

 

I think there gonna need a fire extinguisher.

 

Holy Schnikes!

 

you guys do know that the guy behind the camera died because of that last blast right?

 

I can't understand what that guy was saying. Why did he hang around filming if the blast was gonna be that big????

 

that show sure beats the Power of Houston show they give each year...... id love to see a show like that, from a safe distance of course... the guy was stupid for being anywhere near the factory when it started to go. i would have been gone after the first one went off. when one goes off, you know theres more coming in a factory.

 

I doubt anyone would've anticipated an explosion of that magnitude. Sure, it's a fireworks plant but, Hiroshima sized?

Incredibly impressive and massive... scary to think that it took a life.

RP

 

I tend to think that the explosion was probably a BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion.)

Check out the video hosted on this military website. That is a TANKER TRUCK blowing up... it encompasses about 2 blocks once it's at it's peak... BLEVE's are incredible.

http://www.dcfp.navy.mil/mc/video/truckfire.htm

Ask any HAZ-MAT response guy and they'll tell you that a Bleve is just about as bad as it gets.

I sat in a First Responder class (OSHA 1910.120) put on by Dupont Chemical(http://www.dupont.com/emergencyrespo...ml/diag01.html - Called the CAER CAR Program - http://www.dupont.com/emergencyrespo...caertrain.html) that featured a BLEVE video. It was a tanker car out in the middle of a railyard that had managed to catch fire. Long story short, it exploded. It was full of liquid foam (the stuff that expands when it combines with air). It blew chunks of foam the size of large dump trucks over 1.5 miles away and left a crater that was about 17 feet deep and 40 wide (as I recall). These things are something to be taken VERY VERY seriously.