7 Giant Explosion Disasters

The in-depth story of the seven most devastating explosion disasters.

0:00 The West, Texas, Explosion
What started as a routine fire call quickly escalated into an unimaginable nightmare. First responders who rushed toward danger, unaware their equipment would be no match for a massive explosion.

0:11:19 The Enschede Fireworks Disaster
The Enschede Fireworks disaster turned a minor incident into a neighborhood-destroying calamity.

0:26:41 The Olympic Pipeline Tragedy
Corporate neglect transformed a serene woodland creek into a hellish inferno that claimed young lives and forever scarred a community.

0:39:00 The Phillips Explosion
An entire corporation systematically prioritized production over safety, creating a powder keg that ultimately consumed the very community that trusted them.

0:50:29 The Exploding Town
Hutchinson became known as "the exploding town" where science struggled to explain why buildings were suddenly being torn apart from within.

1:02:00 The Beirut Blast
Beirut was shook by the most powerful non-nuclear explosion in recent history when 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate ignited.

1:15:49 The Exploding Whale Incident
A spectacular miscalculation that sent chunks of marine mammal raining down on spectators and cars in a disaster so peculiar it borders on comedy.

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Footage used under fair use policy. CC credit: Picture Worldoflucky, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The exploding Whale story includes footage from KATU News.

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