Disaster Fireworks Warehouse Explosion in Beirut - Spoiler: It wasn't Fireworks it was 2,500+ tons of High-Explosive Ammonium Nitrate

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Beirut, Lebanon (CNN)

A large explosion rocked the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday, damaging buildings and offices around the city.
The source of the explosion was a major fire at a warehouse for firecrackers near the port in Beirut, the state-run National News Agency reported.
A red cloud hung over the city in the wake of the blast as firefighting teams rushed to the scene to try to put out the fire.
Local news reported multiple people were wounded in the incident.
This is a breaking story, more to follow.

Twitter thread: https://mobile.twitter.com/tobiaschneider/status/1290670226934243329

Attaching all of the videos I grabbed from this guys twitter just now as well, here's one of them:

Here are some links to other posts in the thread with more content, you may need to go to the posts directly to see the media:

Spoiler: Two videos

Couple more angles of the explosions, seems everyone in Beirut holds their phone vertically. Buckle up for a very delayed boom in the second video.

Spoiler: Another angle, 'Allahu Ackbar'

Here's a different angle. Notice how the guys recording it say "Allahu Akbar".

EDIT: Direct embed

Spoiler: Slow Motion explosion

Found this slowmo of the explosion in which you can see the fireball and airblast more clearly

Spoiler: Two more videos

(edits: trying to get the spacing of text/video right; links to tweets)
I think this is just a slowed down version of this that I grabbed from twitter (https://twitter.com/saadmohseni/status/1290678176574779395):















Also this for another, closer angle (https://twitter.com/realdavereilly/status/1290690743217119235):

Spoiler: Lebanese Public Security: Not fireworks, High-Explosive Material

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And you retards thought putting it all in one place is a good idea?

Spoiler: Sodium Nitrate, PM's Wife and Daughter slightly injured in explosions, ISRAEL UNINVOLVED WE SWEAR

It was explosive sodium nitrate holy shit
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https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1290698269421600770

Israel denies involvement, Hezbollah says it wasn't their stuff, PM's wife and daughter injured
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https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1290703557797089281

Spoiler: Aftermath videos/photos

What remains of the dock:

Spoiler: Italy Radiation Spike

There’s a radiation spike picked up near Italy/scicily. Let me try to archive this or take a screenshot

http://archive.md/Nefcf

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Spoiler: 2 Minute Compilation Video

I know that there are several vids on here but here's a 2+ minute concatenation of multiple angles and some security camera footage of blast sites.

Spoiler: 2,700 TONS of Ammonia

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Translation: Preliminary security information talks about 2,700 tons of confiscated ammonia in the port exploded during the process of welding a small hole to prevent theft

 

[kcbbq]

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And you retards thought putting it all in one place is a good idea?

That actually makes more sense. This was something so explosive that it put out most of the fire. PEPCON (mentioned above) didn't even manage that. Plus it takes a lot of energy in a shockwave to create a cloud like that.

Already have the death toll at 10.

 

[Bender]

Grain burns. It'll burn very hot, but no boom. Grain dust on the other hand, is a solid fueled thermobaric explosive.

Watch this loadout bin failure. They are lucky something ignited the dust as it was building up otherwise there would have been a boom instead of a fireball.

That's no granary loading bin failure, that me after I've had a spicy curry.

 

[wokelizard]

Here's a different angle. Notice how the guys recording it say "Allahu Akbar".

Reflex.

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And you retards thought putting it all in one place is a good idea?

The Cypriots did exactly the same, a few years ago. Confiscated a load of explosives, stored it in the sun packed up right next to the islands main power station. That whole region is full of fuckwits.

Explosion in Cyprus Naval Base Kills 12 (Photos)

Atleast 12 people were killed and 60 injured on Monday after a depot containing seized Iranian arms exploded at Cyprus main naval base damaging the island’s biggest power station.

www.ibtimes.com

 

[HarveyMCR]

I don’t buy the ammo dump, because why the fuck would you store ammo in a fireworks house. It could’ve been a big ass Sodium Nitrate deposit.

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And you retards thought putting it all in one place is a good idea?

You underestimate Lebanese stupidity

 

[HarveyMCR]

Grain burns. It'll burn very hot, but no boom. Grain dust on the other hand, is a solid fueled thermobaric explosive.

Watch this loadout bin failure. They are lucky something ignited the dust as it was building up otherwise there would have been a boom instead of a fireball.

With an explosion of that magnitude, could it be possible that the grain was vaporized in the initial blast and then the dust was what caused the super massive explosion?

 

[Philosophy Phil]

Its surprising that so many sources are quick to say "Fireworks" when the story is so new.

 

[Arm Pit Cream]

What remains of the dock:

Aftermath:

 

[Dreamer]

I cant fucking wait for all the toneless memes that will come from this.

 

[MarcoFakeAccount]

Video from a lucky motherfucker who was NEXT TO THE WAREHOUSE.

https://twitter.com/vishwavel17/status/1290708510297079808

Somone arch. this for me?

Dude's prob. got hearing damage for the rest of his life, if he did even survive

 

[Dante Alighieri]

Sam Hyde has done it again!

 

[Timber Wolf]

Sam Hyde has done it again!

You mean Samir Al-Hayyid, the wanted islamic fundamentalist terrorist? I can't believe he keeps getting away with it!

 

[WarJams]

Video from a lucky motherfucker who was NEXT TO THE WAREHOUSE.

https://twitter.com/vishwavel17/status/1290708510297079808

Somone arch. this for me?

Dude's prob. got hearing damage for the rest of his life, if he did even survive

This guy deserves an advance on his 72 virgins.

 

[Arm Pit Cream]

What's being lost on people here is the impact of this, Lebanon was already totally fucked economically, in a massive recession and needing international debt to stay afloat. Lebanon was facing mass protests as a result of corruption and long standing sectarian issues. Having half of your heavily populated central district entirely blown up is massive. This isn't even talking about the long standing issues like the power supply, sometimes lasting up to even 22 hours without power. Many people in the country were already saying it was time for civil war or revolution because of the government's corruption. Unlike other middle eastern countries, due to Lebanon's geography (mount Lebanon), it has the least oil of any middle eastern nation(ergo the energy problems).

Lebanon is such a small country there's reports everywhere in Lebanon this was heard, every Lebanese person is aware something is off whether or not they know the news. Lots of people in this thread are quick to shit on the Lebanese but they make due with what little they have. You definitely can't blame the actions of the government on the people when the people want them out of power and have been taking part in active demonstrations.

 

[Dreamer]

Lots of people in this thread are quick to shit on the Lebanese but they make due with what little they have. You definitely can't blame the actions of the government on the people when the people want them out of power and have been taking part in active demonstrations.

They just want to be funny and based for internet points.

 

[Cypher]

The General Secretary of the Kataeb Party died from the blast

 

[kcbbq]

I think the fact that this does appear to be an accident, even if it was a product of stupidity, has made this one tough to witness.

What's being lost on people here is the impact of this, Lebanon was already totally fucked economically, in a massive recession and needing international debt to stay afloat. Lebanon was facing mass protests as a result of corruption and long standing sectarian issues. Having half of your heavily populated central district entirely blown up is massive. This isn't even talking about the long standing issues like the power supply, sometimes lasting up to even 22 hours without power. Many people in the country were already saying it was time for civil war or revolution because of the government's corruption. Unlike other middle eastern countries, due to Lebanon's geography (mount Lebanon), it has the least oil of any middle eastern nation(ergo the energy problems).

Lebanon is such a small country there's reports everywhere in Lebanon this was heard, every Lebanese person is aware something is off whether or not they know the news. Lots of people in this thread are quick to shit on the Lebanese but they make due with what little they have. You definitely can't blame the actions of the government on the people when the people want them out of power and have been taking part in active demonstrations.

There is a lot to shit on Lebanon about, but honestly, they've kind of been done a better job at not being just another messed up piece of the Middle East lately, with getting the pro-Hezbollah government to resign and kicking out Syria.

Requiring the various religions to be represented in their government does allow Hezbollah in, but it does tame them, too.

 

[MarcoFakeAccount]

Archive this one,
Video showing dead(?) bodies.

https://twitter.com/mona_ter/status/1290712737530740741

"Too many bodies to count"

Red Cross has put an initial fatality count at "70+"

 

[Hux]

Video from a lucky motherfucker who was NEXT TO THE WAREHOUSE.

https://twitter.com/vishwavel17/status/1290708510297079808

Somone arch. this for me?

Dude's prob. got hearing damage for the rest of his life, if he did even survive

Yeah, no, that poor bastard's dead. The heat would have seared him on the outside and the shockwave would have scrambled everything inside him to hell and back if the shrapnel didn't tear him up

 

[Absolutego]

Couple more angles of the explosions, seems everyone in Beirut holds their phone vertically. Buckle up for a very delayed boom in the second video.

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You can actually watch the shockwave warp the clouds as it comes closer to the camera in that second vid, neat.

 

[KingCoelacanth]

Its surprising that so many sources are quick to say "Fireworks" when the story is so new.

Well those sources are the government's official word on the event.

I cant fucking wait for all the toneless memes that will come from this.

One of the news streams showed there were groups of people taking selfies in front of the carnage less than an hour after it happened.