There is a fire and lots of smaller explosions, many of which appear to be like fireworks first, and then the massive explosion. The second explosion was apparently in a building next to the original fire. You can see that on videos from Beirut.
“There is a fire and lots of smaller explosions, many of which appear to be like fireworks first, and then the massive explosion. The second explosion was apparently in a building next to the original fire.”
In reviewing the Wiki history of Ammonium Nitrate explosions, it was unbelievable how many of them were caused by a nearby fire at a military site and a rocket or explosive device getting launched into the adjacent AN storage site.
Wile E. Coyote must be the guy in zoning for a lot of these places.