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05-20-2016, 02:55 PM
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Pepcon Rocket Fuel Plant Explosion 1988
I know you've seen this before but it's worth revisiting  The explosions leveled the PEPCON plant and Kidd & Co marshmallow  manufacturing facility. Damage within a 1.5-mile (2.4 km) radius was severe, including destroyed cars, damage to buildings and downed power lines. Damage to windows and moderate structure damage was recorded within three miles (5 km) of the incident. In the video of the incident, the resultant shockwave struck a nearby highway, where it blasted a car off its wheels, killing the driver within.The damage reached a radius of up to 10 miles (16 km), including shattered windows, doors blown off their hinges, cracked windows and injuries from flying glass and debris. At McCarran International Airport, seven miles (11 km) away in Las Vegas, windows were cracked and doors were pushed open. The shock wave buffeted a Boeing 737 on final approach. An investigation estimated that the larger explosion was equivalent to about one kiloton of TNT, approximately the same yield of a tactical nuclear weapon. |
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05-21-2016, 02:52 AM
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Re: Pepcon Rocket Fuel Plant Explosion 1988
That's some pretty great video for 1988.
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05-27-2016, 08:27 AM
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Re: Pepcon Rocket Fuel Plant Explosion 1988
What the juddering FUCK do they make marshmallows out of??????  |
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06-20-2016, 10:00 AM
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Re: Pepcon Rocket Fuel Plant Explosion 1988
Most reports say 2 people died, both at the plant. Both handicapped, including the manager who stayed behind calling 911, eventually telling them to stay away. I see the vehicle in another video and can't really tell how it fared, but it was very close to the blast. Everyone from the marshmallow factory evacuated. Good thing as an article stated the factory was unable to contain the pressure wave. I dunno, probably anyone would have been cushioned by the product anyway.
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06-20-2016, 11:29 AM
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