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

 

[1Tonka_Truck]

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?

Maybe, but I don't think the dust would be dense enough to make a boom. All my knowledge of dust explosions is practical, as in, 'here's a list of things not to do so we don't show up on seismographs in California.' A professional fireworks company I know uses flash powder as a primary explosive to launch corn starch mixed with 11 herbs and spices out of 5 gallon buckets. It makes a huge fireball, but no boom. This way above my pay grade, but I think the problem is the dust is moving faster than the flame front so it can't combust all at once.

On top of that, those concrete silos are pretty stout. The one at the Beirut port seems to be mostly intact. It looks to missing maybe one row of storage, unless the whole backside is gutted.

ETA: I just noticed what used to be the warehouse (right of the silo complex) is now part of the Med.

 

[Cypher]

China and Iran must be throwing dollar bills at a Stripper right now with all of that shit they're gonna front from reconstruction at that radius

 

[tehpope]

China and Iran must be throwing dollar bills at a Stripper right now with all of that shit they're gonna front from reconstruction at that radius

Probably not China. Since Corona Chan and mother nature are buttfucking them right now.

 

[Jeffrey Epstein]

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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so what's that mean?>

 

[Otterly]

Wind is blowing west to east at the moment so possibly whatever happened isn’t linked.
That’s one massive bang though. What set it off? Is that stuff unstable or does it need ignition?
@Jeffrey Epstein it means there will be a lot of conspiracy sperging about nukes which will be fun to watch.

 

[ImBatman]

Really, Chris?

I can't believe people are coming up with takes this cold already. Guy's tweets are getting deleted and he's still doubling down on them.

 

[ColtWalker1847]

Isn't Sodium Nitrate fucking TOXIC TO BREATH IN?

This is gonna get worse.

We use it as curing salt. So not really. Probably not great to inhale but not super deadly either.

 

[Otterly]

‘We’ve confiscated some contraband goods, where shall we put them? ‘
’in the warehouse with all the other contraband goods.’
Righto

Same thought process:

‘We’ve confiscated a load of highly explosive chemicals, where shall we store them?’
‘Hmmm... well how about the fireworks factory, with all the other highly explosive Chemicals ’
‘Righto!’
*boom*

 

[Judge Dredd]

Sky News had an explosives and terrorism expert on to give his opinion. Said the white smoke is indicative of civilian low explosives, and not military grade high explosives. Seems to throw his hat in with the "it was confiscated fireworks/explosive material" story, not terrorism or a military attack.

The presenter then keeps asking him the same question repeatedly, just worded differently. Seems to be trying to get him to claim it's terrorism but he stuck to his guns.

 

[Judge Holden]

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

 

[kcbbq]

Really, Chris?
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I can't believe people are coming up with takes this cold already. Guy's tweets are getting deleted and he's still doubling down on them.

There are so many things that make it obvious to anyone but someone with crippling autism and video game addiction that this wasn't a nuke.

Christ, there are forest fires that make mushroom clouds.

Edit: there isn't even a mushroom cloud.

 

[RodgerDodger]

Yeah, that looks like a massive fertilizer explosion. Which the Sodium Nitrate claims would go along with. They confiscated a shipload of suspect fertilizer/explosive material from somebody. Stuffed it in a hot warehouse unmonitored for over a year until something started to combust on the fringes until finally the whole thing blew. Google Texas City Explosion to get an idea of just how insanely massive of an explosion something like that can be. Second option would be a munitions dump or ship going up. But I’m leaning more towards human stupidity with massive amounts of fertilizer.

and edit, Sodium Nitrate is commonly known as Saltpeter, and has wide industrial uses. While not terribly explosive on its own, it’s the main ingredient in high nitrate fertilizers, which are incredibly explosive if stored in mass, allowed to decompose, mixed with petroleum products such as diesel fuel, or simply set on fire.

 

[kcbbq]

Death toll up to 50, nearly 3000 wounded. I imagine those totals will be increasing for a while.

 

[wokelizard]

Yeah, that looks like a massive fertilizer explosion. Which the Sodium Nitrate claims would go along with. They confiscated a shipload of suspect fertilizer/explosive material from somebody. Stuffed it in a hot warehouse unmonitored for over a year until something started to combust on the fringes until finally the whole thing blew. Google Texas City Explosion to get an idea of just how insanely massive of an explosion something like that can be. Second option would be a munitions dump or ship going up. But I’m leaning more towards human stupidity with massive amounts of fertilizer.

The massive plumes of red/brown smoke in the second explosion is a dead giveaway of nitrate decomposition into nitrogen dioxide.

 

[RodgerDodger]

Death toll up to 50, nearly 3000 wounded. I imagine those totals will be increasing for a while.

Yeah the early reports of 10 deaths seem optimistic. The actual numbers will be horrifying. I’m assuming, going by the smoke column before the explosion that Firefighters were likely on scene? There won’t be much left of them.

 

[Wendy Wheelchair]

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.

 

[Jaded Optimist]

Sodium Nitrate is commonly known as Saltpeter

Actually it's Chile saltpeter, it's different then regular saltpeter. Regular saltpeter is potassium nitrate.

 

[Smug Cat]

Yeah the early reports of 10 deaths seem optimistic. The actual numbers will be horrifying. I’m assuming, going by the smoke column before the explosion that Firefighters were likely on scene? There won’t be much left of them.

Early reports were number of confirmed, i.e. actual bodies they had recovered. Confirmed deaths are always really low right after a disaster happens. Nobody reporting 10 ever thought it was actually only 10.

 

[Chin of Campbell]

Really, Chris?
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I can't believe people are coming up with takes this cold already. Guy's tweets are getting deleted and he's still doubling down on them.

JUST LIKE IN FALLOUT 4!!!!!

 

[Otterly]

There are so many things that make it obvious to anyone but someone with crippling autism and video game addiction that this wasn't a nuke.

Christ, there are forest fires that make mushroom clouds.
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Wouldn’t a nuke fry phone cameras?