FireWorks Factory Explodes (video)
 

Enjoy!

http://media.ebaumsworld.com/fireworkfactory.wmv

Where: Enschede, Holland
When :18 may 2000
How :Fire in a storage container filled with Fireworks, blowing up the entire factory in the end.

Casualties: 18 deaths, 945 wounded.

Timeline pic anyone?

Sorry,,,It's my 1st day on the job

I actually heard it explode, I was about 10km away from it. You shoudl have seen what it looked like afterwards, damn

Damn. That was some explosion. :thumbsup

lol loads of firework factorys explode. its crazy shit when they do.

Must be a beautiful sighting :)

I am sure the people who lost everything will agree

He's one of GFY's most worthless posters. He makes a one line (or even one word) reply in almost every thread. Nobody knows who he is or what he does so it's probably safe to assume he's only here to sell his sig and postwhore.

Hes annoying indeed. He only posts old news, doesnt even reply in his own thread and moves on to start another old news thread. I doubt he even runs sites. Hes an idiot.

Seemed to terrify the cameraman a couple of times.

http://www.pussy-post.com/images/timeline.gif

My God, I bet the cameraman was feeling torn between journalism and self-preservation.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh well then I guess we can cut you a LITTLE slack.

I'd like to see that vid from your sig ! :thumbsup

It's coming soon:thumbsup

awesome vid dude:firehair :feels-hot

I'm pretty sure I've read that he was one of the casualties.

shit I missed that one....I never saw that vid.

I wonder if the camera man was fucked up.

yeah heard the same, not sure though. There must be a few differnt vids around wich they showed on the news back then.

Shit. That is a pretty impressive display.

Wow what a terrible accident and explosion.

I've been to Enschede and Hengelo years ago. Brings back some memories.

holy shit

are there post-bots in this thread? :eek7

Silver threads and golden needles, you know what they say:glugglug

damn that must have been very loud :S

i want to see that video on ur siggie :D

Must be pretty scary, huh?

That was a big isaster

I was working for a fireworks company back in '83 (Austin Fireworks out of Wichita, KS - they shoot the Niagra Falls show every year and a bunch of other cool shows). They sent me down to a fireworks factory in Oklahoma to pick up a shitload of Class A stuff. Big ass red metal warehouse, all family run, kids running around coated with powder (not the talcum kind). There was this one guy making the kickers they use to get extra altitude on the shells. He looked like the Tinman in the Wizard of Oz he had so much magnesium gunpowder on him.

Anyway, I get back to Wichita and two weeks later there's a headline in the newspaper saying that a "major fireworks factory in Oklahoma" exploded. I about shit my pants because it was the exact same factory I'd just been to.

The heat from the exploding 55gal drums of various types of gunpowder literally melted the complex to the ground and burned a crater into the concrete foundation. It partially evaporated the pond just by the warehouse, killed all the fish and what body parts that weren't vaporized were found hundreds of yards from "ground zero".

Aparently, a couple of the younger kids (8 or 9yo) were unloading a truck carrying 55gal drums of titanium based powder and they accidently skidded one of the barrels on the deck of the truck. It sparked and that's all she wrote.

Several years before I took the summer job with Austin their complex was devastated during a thunderstorm. They had about a dozen semi-trailers used for storage of the class C stuff they sold to fireworks stands. Lightening hit one of the trailers and set off a chain reaction. All the trailers vaporized and shrapnel from those explosions hit the main two warehouses with all the Class A stuff. Leveled the entire complex including Paul Austin's avionics shop that is at the front of the property. Windows 1/4mi away were blown out from the shockwave and people saw and heard the explosion as far as 10 miles away.

Morale? Pyrotechnics is fun yes, but when shit happens there isn't even time to say "Oh Shit!"

holy shit. that was fucking insane.

Yeah, when things like that happens, you can't even think, all you wanna do is to escape.

DAMN

yea that was one evil blast :(

simpsons? :1orglaugh

As much as that blast was serious, you've never seen a true fireworks plant go up. It makes Bahgdad look like a Christmas tree.

Pyro companies work with some seriously weird shit. Titanium, Chromium, Sulfur, etc. to attain the colors in the fireworks.

A 2" shell is equivalent to a stick of TNT.

One day at Austin's I was loading mortar tubes with 6" shells. I was lowering a shell into the tube and the fucking fuse broke. It was like something out of "the Matrix" - time stopped because everyone knew what happened. We all watched as this 6" ball of fury dropped to the ground and we all knew if it went off we were dead dead dead. The warehouse was stocked to the ceilings with Class A explosives.

Luckily it just bounced and I caught it. My life did flash before my eyes though. I didn't even get out "SHIT!". The fuse snapped and I watched in slow motion as this minister of death dropped to the concrete floor.

That must've been a real blast....

thankfully no. It didn't go off, but oh SHIIIIIIIITTTTTE.

I don't know dutch, but aren't they saying something about the cameraman in the end of the video?

Looks like a MacGyver scene !!!

Fireworks are usually better at night... :anon