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

 

[Ahriman]

Youtube stream:

 

[Hux]

A little bit of a month late there, guys

 

[CWCissey]

Lol that ain't fireworks, that's a munitions dump.

 

[Home Again]

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.

 

[kcbbq]

That is a beautiful shockwave. Lol at "fireworks", wink, wink.

 

[Judge Holden]

First thing that came to my mind was either some kind of fuel air bomb or more likely a halifax explosion style event. Given its a port and supposedly involved a fucktunne of concentrated explosives im going with the latter

 

[OstREEEch]

Some are saying it was a "fireworks warehouse"

 

[WarJams]

Woah, these videos of the explosion are amazing. That shockwave is bitchin', that msuhroom cloud blowing the clouds out of the sky, and these cameraman being knocked on their asses. This explosion was huge.

 

[Jaded Optimist]

Lol that ain't fireworks, that's a munitions dump.

Yeah, when firework places you get actual fireworks going off. That definitely looked like a munitions depot.

 

[CatParty]

 

[BOONES]

Nice to see the IEDS work.

 

[Slav Power]

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

EDIT: Direct embed

 

[Judge Holden]

Yeah, when firework places you get actual fireworks going off. That definitely looked like a munitions depot.

There were small explosions just before the big kablooey but yeah, I have seen fireworks factories explode and they dont look like that.

Hell, even the famous 2015 china explosion didnt look much like that and that was basically a couple containers worth of fertiliser exploding

 

[Glad I couldn't help]

"Mysterious explosion in Middle East" is one of 2020's tamer headlines.

 

[Judge Holden]

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

 

[WarJams]

There were small explosions just before the big kablooey but yeah, I have seen fireworks factories explode and they dont look like that.

Hell, even the famous 2015 china explosion didnt look much like that and that was basically a couple containers worth of fertiliser exploding

It's a port, so I'm expecting to see that some wizard of smart decided to put the fireworks emporium right next to the national grain elevator and extreme fire hazard repository.

 

[Gandalf the Gay]

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

EDIT: Direct embed
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That's just the same as shouting 'oh my god' given the context, pretty self explanatory.

Also link to the Reuters Livestream in case the newspaper one goes down.

 

[KingCoelacanth]

Lebanon has been getting set up as a proxy war between US/Israel and Iran/Hezbollah, I wonder if this has anything tied to it. (much like all those "random" factory fires across Iran recently)

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

EDIT: Direct embed
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Allahu Akbar, is just a generic "oh my god" "Jesus christ" thing for muslims.
Unless if they're mindlessly screaming it at the top of their lungs over and over again, it isn't really indicative of anything.

 

[Jaded Optimist]

There were small explosions just before the big kablooey

You could see little blasts, but it looked like ammo cooking off.