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Beirut port ablaze, weeks after massive blast
CNN ^ | September 10, 2020 | Ghazi Balkiz, Tamara Qiblawi, and Eliza Mackintosh

Posted on 09/10/2020 5:59:38 AM PDT by McGruff

A huge blaze broke out in Beirut's port on Thursday, just weeks after a massive blast at the same site laid waste to the capital city, killing nearly 200 people.

The cause of the fire was not immediately clear, but the Lebanese army said in a statement that it began at a warehouse where oil and tires are kept in the port's duty-free market.

Videos taken at the scene showed a warehouse engulfed in flames and a large plume of black smoke rising into the sky. Many Beirut residents sharing clips on social media expressed their dismay that yet another disaster was unfolding and that the scenes were all too familiar.

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1 posted on 09/10/2020 5:59:38 AM PDT by McGruff
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2 posted on 09/10/2020 6:01:07 AM PDT by McGruff (Polls are for dancing)
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To: McGruff

That is a massive fire.


3 posted on 09/10/2020 6:03:31 AM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: McGruff

Isn’t that the exact location of the explosion?


4 posted on 09/10/2020 6:04:28 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: McGruff

Jeremiah 22:23

O inhabitant of Lebanon, nested among the cedars, how you will be pitied when pangs come upon you, pain as of a woman in labor!”


5 posted on 09/10/2020 6:05:22 AM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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To: McGruff

Oil and tires only, of course.


6 posted on 09/10/2020 6:06:14 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (2020: Broken glass election : Republic or no Republic.)
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To: EEGator

The silos are behind the smoke. These are the adjacent warehouses that were destroyed..................


7 posted on 09/10/2020 6:06:19 AM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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To: Red Badger

Thank you.


8 posted on 09/10/2020 6:06:45 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: everyone

I imagine the locals were waiting for the second blast for more than a few minutes.


9 posted on 09/10/2020 6:10:58 AM PDT by McGruff (Polls are for dancing)
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To: EEGator

Looks like the fire is in the middle of the destruction left by the blast. Maybe someone is getting ready to build by clearing out debris.


10 posted on 09/10/2020 6:25:50 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: EEGator

I believe that the location of the explosion is now part of the harbor. A water-filled crater.


11 posted on 09/10/2020 6:28:09 AM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful!)
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To: 21twelve

Yep. This is somewhere else.


12 posted on 09/10/2020 6:32:21 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: McGruff

Poor folks can’t get a break.


13 posted on 09/10/2020 6:35:17 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security! (Ironic, huh?))
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No. look behind the black smoke on the left and you’ll see what’s left of the grain elevators that was about the only thing left standing near ground zero. the original blast appears to be behind the smoke column.


14 posted on 09/10/2020 7:14:20 AM PDT by jimjohn (The 2nd American Civil War began shortly after 12:00 noon on January 20, 2017)
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To: McGruff

Anybody else see a dragon in that picture, or do I need to consider kicking my LSD habit?


15 posted on 09/10/2020 7:15:23 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: RinaseaofDs

Or at least sharing with your FRiends!


16 posted on 09/10/2020 7:19:39 AM PDT by null and void (The Left weaponizes everything in the service of tyranny.)
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To: EEGator

Looks like it might be next door. In that photo, I believe the crater left by the explosion is actually to the right...


17 posted on 09/10/2020 7:22:08 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: null and void

Crystal pyramids in candy bowls!


18 posted on 09/10/2020 7:23:08 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: EEGator

No. The explosion was over by the grain elevators. It made a new marina in the port.


19 posted on 09/10/2020 7:26:25 AM PDT by DownInFlames (Gals)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

20 posted on 09/10/2020 7:31:16 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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