Where's Wellwood Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 (edited) Quote LONDON -- Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, was rocked by a massive explosion on Tuesday evening, with footage from the ground showing significant damage and plumes of smoke rising above the city. Two explosions occurred in Beirut's port, potentially injuring dozens, according to the AFP. Firefighters were seen battling flames at the scene of the blast. It is not yet known what caused the explosions. The Lebanese Health Minister reportedly said there were a "very high number of injuries." Ghada Alsharif, a reporter from the Daily Star, one of Lebanon's most prominent news outlets, posted a video on social media showing significant damage within the newspaper's office building. Firefighters were seen battling flames at the scene of the blast. It is not yet known what caused the explosion. The Lebanese Red Cross have dispatched 30 teams to the scene and are making an urgent call for blood donations. Other eyewitnesses said there are multiple fires still burning and that windows of apartment buildings were shattered in a large radius around the blast site. Video from the ground in Beirut shows cars crushed by rubble, injured people walking through debris and extensive damage to nearby buildings. https://abcnews.go.com/International/massive-explosion-shocks-beirut/story?id=72167623 Reports are saying the port may have housed fireworks. Reports are saying at least 78 dead, over 3000 wounded. You can see and hear the fireworks better in the beginning of this video I'd imagine the first explosion was fireworks but the ammonium nitrate was responsible for the second larger explosion Edited August 5, 2020 by Where's Wellwood Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeyJoeJoeJr. Shabadoo Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 Wow, that was quite the explosion. Reminds me of the Tianjin explosion in 2015 except in daylight. Similar camera angle too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tortorella's Rant Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 My friend from there sent some other video of the blast. video-1596560348.mp4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post skolozsy2 Posted August 4, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted August 4, 2020 "Reports are saying the port may have housed fireworks." Fireworks did THAT!?!? Seems like a pretty significant explosion for it to be just fireworks. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tortorella's Rant Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 3 minutes ago, skolozsy2 said: "Reports are saying the port may have housed fireworks." Fireworks did THAT!?!? Seems like a pretty significant explosion for it to be just fireworks. Looks like a hydrogen bomb.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shekky Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 Scary stuff there is no way fireworks made that big of an explosion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tre Mac Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 I know the numbers are early but I was expecting casualties in the thousands - hundreds injured obviously but only reporting dozens killed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuckin_futz Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 "Reports say that the first explosion was caused by fire in vessel loaded with fireworks. Second explosion was caused by nearby vessel loaded with nitrate." ********************** The above is just speculation at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warhippy Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 (edited) Slow down those videos....you're literally watching tenements and apartments vaporized....the entire ground is lifted and chunks of pavement are just gone. This is insane wow Edited August 4, 2020 by Warhippy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBH1926 Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 45 minutes ago, Shekky said: Scary stuff there is no way fireworks made that big of an explosion. If the cache was large enough, sure it could. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedestroyerofworlds Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 9 minutes ago, nuckin_futz said: "Reports say that the first explosion was caused by fire in vessel loaded with fireworks. Second explosion was caused by nearby vessel loaded with nitrate." ********************** The above is just speculation at this point. If you watch the video, that speculation seems to be highly plausible. You can see what looks like fireworks going off and fires before the large major explosion. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warhippy Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warhippy Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 (edited) Absolutely crazy. That glass balcony would be an absolute death trap Edited August 4, 2020 by Warhippy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SID.IS.SID.ME.IS.ME Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 29 minutes ago, Tre Mac said: I know the numbers are early but I was expecting casualties in the thousands - hundreds injured obviously but only reporting dozens killed. Sadly, it seems your expected numbers are likely going to the end result. Seems every two minutes, the official death toll increases. Latest total I saw (via Lebanese health ministry) was 50 killed and 2750 injured. And unofficial reports of 100+ dead and 4000+ injured. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Marchand Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 The condensation cloud from that explosion was massive. Can see in the videos how it rides the shock wave until it dissipates. Haven't seen anything like that in a long time, especially in a dense urban area. Obviously awful from a human standpoint. Really hoping there weren't too many casualties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dekey Pete Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 if only 25-50 people were killed in that blast that would be a miracle. I expect that a lot more will be confirmed once they are able to properly assess the damage. What a terrifying thing to happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SID.IS.SID.ME.IS.ME Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 These are the closest videos I’ve seen to the blast. The one positive, in both cases, you can hear voices or even see people walking around immediately after the explosion, despite them being so close to the blast. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tre Mac Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 30 minutes ago, SID.IS.SID.ME.IS.ME said: These are the closest videos I’ve seen to the blast. The one positive, in both cases, you can hear voices or even see people walking around immediately after the explosion, despite them being so close to the blast. Dam that's going to knock a lot of people in the water where I doubt they'll have time to recover in time to swim to safely to shore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-23 Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-23 Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Please sign in to comment
You will be able to leave a comment after signing in
Sign In Now