Posted on 08/07/2020 2:59:49 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A second source has confirmed the fireworks’ presence, which was also the subject of media reports in Lebanon on Friday.
The claim that fireworks were being stored in the same warehouse as the ammonium nitrate appears to be confirmed by phone footage, apparently filmed by a port worker from the roof of the grain silos that overlooked the seat of the biggest blast – now a 150-metre-wide crater of seawater.
In the brief section of footage posted on social media, a long warehouse – running parallel to the grain silo and separated by a road – is visible, with smoke coming out of the windows on its west side and from the roof.
Geotagging by the investigative website Bellingcat and the Guardian, and comparison of features, strongly suggests that this warehouse is located at the very centre of the devastating blast –locating the initial fire and subsequent explosions in the same area of warehousing.
As the person on the silo roof films the north end of the warehouse from their vantage point, the smoke thickens and then a dozen or so white flashes can be seen occurring in rapid succession inside, triggering thicker red flames that quickly spread southwards before detonating a major explosion in the building within seconds that causes the person filming to duck for cover.
Shehadi said he had spoken to former colleagues at the port who said workers were attempting to fix a gate outside warehouse 12 with an electrical tool ahead of the blast. “This was at 5pm, and after 30 minutes they saw smoke.
A video posted to social media depicted firefighters tackling a small blaze in a warehouse that resembled a port building. “It is my belief that this repair work led to this catastrophe,” Shehadi said.
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It was likely the center fuel tank..........
I am somewhat confused. Ammonia Nitrate is an explosive chemical particularly in a confined space where temperatures and pressures can get to a critical level of explosive detonation via the shock wave through the mass of Nitrates.
You can take a pile of this stuff and drop it on the ground and drop matches into it and nothing will happen.
I am confused.
I keep hearing so many variations of how dangerous Ammonium Nitrate is. I know it can be made into an explosive and huge amounts have destroyed cities before.
Daddy was in the Combat Engineers in WWII. He said that TNT was very safe to handle. Just how safe can TNT be?
Very safe until it sweats
Yeah, they’ve been going downhill ever since they decided to bury Gobi Teki.
LOL
I always thought it was some stupid with a flare gun.
I suspect the original confiscation of the cargo of ammonium nitrate was a cover word for delivery.
The now retired captain of the ship said they got orders from the owner to divert to that port to pick up more cargo.
Ground level view starting at about the 56 second mark.
Looks and sounds like fireworks to me...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNH4eE3RYUM
“The cause of the explosions was not immediately determined,[5] although state media initially reported them taking place at a fireworks warehouse, while others placed them at an oil storage or chemical storage facility.[26][38][39]
“There were warehouses in the port that stored explosives and chemicals including nitrates, common components of fertilizers and explosives.[40] The Director General of Public Security, Major general Abbas Ibrahim, said the explosion was caused by the ammonium nitrate that was confiscated from the Rhosus.[41][14] The 2,750 tonnes (3,030 short tons) of ammonium nitrate was the equivalent to around 1,155 tonnes of TNT (4,830 gigajoules).[42]
“LBCI said that, according to attendees of a Higher Defence Council briefing, the fire was ignited by workers welding a door at a warehouse.[43][44][f] A former port worker told The Guardian: “There were 30–40 nylon bags of fireworks inside warehouse 12”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Beirut_explosions#Cause
After seeing the vid’s I have been thinking why are what appears to be - at the least - fireworks exploding in the same warehouse as the AN is being stored.
Who would store fireworks in a building full of AN?
Ha. Do Muzzies beieve in karma?
The view starting at 3:05 of the video is one I hadn’t seen before. There was an initial explosion that really started things going off. Still looks to intense to be fireworks to me.
You nailed it. Bunch of Muslim terrorist packing ammonium nitrate and diesel fuel into rockets when Hadji decides to take a Camel smoke break.
The one where she urging him to go inside? I think you can see the guy shooting the silo video briefly a couple times. He isn’t on the roof of the silo, he’s one floor up on top of an rigid awning.
Wow, whoever filmed that is DEAD
This was a tac nuke, it’s bloody obvious.
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You don't know what you're babbling about. The (7%) diesel fuel in ANFO is primarily there to reduce water absorption by the AN. And -- Ammonium Nitrate is so inherently unstable that (especially when heated) it can detonate with little or no initiation -- and no reducing agent (oil) is required -- because AN is an OXIDIZER, itself...
(Read this physical chemist's FRProfile -- and you'll see I "wrote the [chapter of] the book" on McV's bomb and its effects on the Murrah building.)
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And, Bulwyf, that was no nuke. No thermal flash! And, the reddish orange smoke is the "signature" of decomposing ammonium nitrate. (as I personally observed -- from 2.3 KT of AN -- from my 4th grade classroom on April 16, 1947 -- near Texas City, Texas.
SMH...
TXnMA
Check this out. Someone was getting married at the wrong time.
What would have been a beautifully-shot wedding video turned into a scene from a disaster movie as the shockwave from #BeirutBlasts ripped through the Lebanese capital and blew out the church’s stained glass windows, just as the bride was about to enter.
https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1291947242526355456
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