Posted on 08/24/2022 9:15:40 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The northern section of a previously damaged set of grain silos in Beirut collapsed Tuesday after a fire slowly burned in the block for weeks when grains trapped inside ignited.
The silos were first damaged in August 2020 when a nearby port warehouse storing ammonium nitrate fertilizer exploded in a blast that killed over 200 people, wounded 7,000 and destroyed 77,000 apartments.
The Tuesday collapse created a cloud of dust over the port city and took down eight other damaged silos in the site’s northern block.
The silo’s norther section had been slowly tipping over since the first explosion two years ago, but the severity of the site’s deterioration began to accelerate after it caught fire last month.
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The original blast put out one incredible shock wave.
Yes, that was like tremendous.
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