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Huge Beirut explosion shatters windows across Lebanese capital

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Beirut explosion: Large blast near port rocks Lebanese capital - CNN

A massive explosion ripped through the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday, injuring many people and blowing out windows in buildings across the city.
The source of the explosion was initially believed to be a major fire at a warehouse for firecrackers near the port in Beirut, the state-run National News Agency reported.
The blast sent up a huge mushroom cloud-like shockwave and damaged buildings miles from the port, including the headquarters of former Prime Minister Saad Hariri and CNN's bureau in downtown Beirut.

A red cloud hung over the city in the wake of the explosion as firefighting teams rushed to the scene to try to put out the fire. Large numbers of people were wounded in the blast, authorities said, and footage from the scene captured the injured staggering through streets in the capital.

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Some saying a fireworks factory. Other speculating a weapons cache. Others think a MOAB was used. Expected the death toll to rise dramatically. Damage is very extensive.
 
Beirut explosion: Large blast near port rocks Lebanese capital - CNN

A massive explosion ripped through the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday, injuring many people and blowing out windows in buildings across the city.
The source of the explosion was initially believed to be a major fire at a warehouse for firecrackers near the port in Beirut, the state-run National News Agency reported.
The blast sent up a huge mushroom cloud-like shockwave and damaged buildings miles from the port, including the headquarters of former Prime Minister Saad Hariri and CNN's bureau in downtown Beirut.

A red cloud hung over the city in the wake of the explosion as firefighting teams rushed to the scene to try to put out the fire. Large numbers of people were wounded in the blast, authorities said, and footage from the scene captured the injured staggering through streets in the capital.

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Some saying a fireworks factory. Other speculating a weapons cache. Others think a MOAB was used. Expected the death toll to rise dramatically. Damage is very extensive.

Sucks. Now Iran has to send more rockets to Hezbollah.
 
Beirut explosion: Large blast near port rocks Lebanese capital - CNN

A massive explosion ripped through the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday, injuring many people and blowing out windows in buildings across the city.
The source of the explosion was initially believed to be a major fire at a warehouse for firecrackers near the port in Beirut, the state-run National News Agency reported.
The blast sent up a huge mushroom cloud-like shockwave and damaged buildings miles from the port, including the headquarters of former Prime Minister Saad Hariri and CNN's bureau in downtown Beirut.

A red cloud hung over the city in the wake of the explosion as firefighting teams rushed to the scene to try to put out the fire. Large numbers of people were wounded in the blast, authorities said, and footage from the scene captured the injured staggering through streets in the capital.

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Some saying a fireworks factory. Other speculating a weapons cache. Others think a MOAB was used. Expected the death toll to rise dramatically. Damage is very extensive.

That didn't look like fireworks...

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Beirut explosion: Large blast near port rocks Lebanese capital - CNN

A massive explosion ripped through the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday, injuring many people and blowing out windows in buildings across the city.
The source of the explosion was initially believed to be a major fire at a warehouse for firecrackers near the port in Beirut, the state-run National News Agency reported.
The blast sent up a huge mushroom cloud-like shockwave and damaged buildings miles from the port, including the headquarters of former Prime Minister Saad Hariri and CNN's bureau in downtown Beirut.

A red cloud hung over the city in the wake of the explosion as firefighting teams rushed to the scene to try to put out the fire. Large numbers of people were wounded in the blast, authorities said, and footage from the scene captured the injured staggering through streets in the capital.

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Some saying a fireworks factory. Other speculating a weapons cache. Others think a MOAB was used. Expected the death toll to rise dramatically. Damage is very extensive.

That explosion was incredible, I've seen it from several different angles. I wonder if anyone in that building shown next to that explosion is still alive? How horrible for Beirut.

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That didn't look like fireworks...

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Some of the videos out there you can see a lot of white flashes low at the base of the mushroom cloud some have attributed to fireworks going off. IDK. Just stated what I could gather at the time of the post, mostly from twitter accounts.
 
A mushroom cloud and massive after shock suggests it was more than just fireworks. The damage looks surreal.


I hope 2020 isn't the new normal and we look back and think it was a good year. :(
 
Sucks. Now Iran has to send more rockets to Hezbollah.

Sometimes I wonder if you have even an ounce of humanity in you.
 
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Some of the videos out there you can see a lot of white flashes low at the base of the mushroom cloud some have attributed to fireworks going off. IDK. Just stated what I could gather at the time of the post, mostly from twitter accounts.

That's what they're reporting. Could also be ammunition going off. Looks like they had something else stored there too. Tragic.
 
That explosion was incredible, I've seen it from several different angles. I wonder if anyone in that building shown next to that explosion is still alive? How horrible for Beirut.



Whoa...
 
Sometimes I wonder if you have even an ounce of humanity in you.

I have more humanity than Hezbollah or Iran.
 
A mushroom cloud and massive after shock suggests it was more than just fireworks. The damage looks surreal.


I hope 2020 isn't the new normal and we look back and think it was a good year. :(

It was two stages. There was a giant cloud of gray smoke with the white flashes before the mushroom cloud explosion
 
It was two stages. There was a giant cloud of gray smoke with the white flashes before the mushroom cloud explosion

Some are speculating that the sea water had something to do with the second stage of the explosion.
 
I have more humanity than Hezbollah or Iran.

'Humanity', or compassion for other human beings should never be made into something else and when you chose to compare your 'humanity' to being superior to Hezbollan or Iran, you just completely destroyed any illusion of humanity you think you may have.

I happen to know a few people from Iran. They are kind, respectful people. I don't think an entire nation of 82 million people should be judged as one unit.
 
There has been like 20 random huge fires in Iran and Israel said its responsible for some of them but wont disclose which ones, (all of them I assume). So I wonder who did this in Lebanon? And I guess CNN tried to blame this on fireworks?
 
that looks like a fertilizer storagement before the explosion. Could well have been fertilizer exploding.
 
I don't know what they had stored in that facility. But what ever it was, it was B-I-G! :doh
 
that looks like a fertilizer storagement before the explosion. Could well have been fertilizer exploding.
That sounds like a reasonable possibility. But if so, that was a ****load of fertilizer!
 
Some are speculating that the sea water had something to do with the second stage of the explosion.

I think phosphorous reacts pretty harshly with all sorts of water. When I was a wee one we had a local blast some nearby equated with a nuclear explosion when a rail car filled with one chemical or the other at the fertilizer plant got water in it from a rain storm. I heard the explosion but we lived a fair distance away and the plant sits down in a low area with ridges around it so it just sounded like thunder to me.
 
I haven't seen any evidence of that.

Yes, well, we know how everything you see is filtered by your bias so that's not saying much.

You are dismissed. (see my sig)
 
I think phosphorous reacts pretty harshly with all sorts of water. When I was a wee one we had a local blast some nearby equated with a nuclear explosion when a rail car filled with one chemical or the other at the fertilizer plant got water in it from a rain storm. I heard the explosion but we lived a fair distance away and the plant sits down in a low area with ridges around it so it just sounded like thunder to me.

Then I hope they weren't trying to put out the fires from the first explosion with sea water. oy.
 
Then I hope they weren't trying to put the fires out from the first explosion with sea water. oy.

Possible the sprinklers were tied into to the seawater. Depends on what was actually in the building. Class B foam and D encaps aren't cheap so a lot of places that should have them installed, don't. They also aren't what one might call eco-friendly either.
 
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That sounds like a reasonable possibility. But if so, that was a ****load of fertilizer!

Many people dont know that, but fertilizer is an incredible powerful explosive. Some of the most powerful, non nuclear explsoions were caused by fertilizer.

That stuff doesnt ignite easily, but once it is going it goes boom...

You can see there is a fire burning already and thats a huge fire and then that massive explosion is triggered. Looks exactly how fertilizer usually blows up. The initial fire heated it up to its explosidng point.

I saw the ruins now and its definitly a fertilizer storage

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That sounds like a reasonable possibility. But if so, that was a ****load of fertilizer!

This was a truck full of fertilizer, iirc:

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