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Perhaps an interesting datapoint from a Western government, a similar disaster happened in The Netherlands in the year 2000. 177 tones of firework were stored i

Perhaps an interesting datapoint from a Western government, a similar disaster happened in The Netherlands in the year 2000. 177 tones of firework were stored in a single building in the middle of a residential area. The results were pretty much what you’d expect. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enschede_fireworks_disaster https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enschede_fireworks_disaster

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Gys 6y ago
> Prior to the disaster it had a good safety record and met all safety audits. At least one thing that differs from Beirut
- Scoundreller 6y ago
  Though... > When it was built in 1977, the warehouse was outside the town, but as new residential areas were built it became surrounded by low-income housing and > However, the illegal use of shipping containers reduced safety Netherlands starting to sound like Lebanon
  - fuzzfactor 6y ago
    There's a whole magazine about things like this. In previous decades they had feature articles and a few pages of fine print with a couple sentences about each reported incident large or small. Fortunately most were not fatalities but were kind of grim like obituaries anyway. _Man checks oil tank with lighter and lives._ Now it looks like their website is mainly an incident log: https://www.industrialfireworld.com/567881/hydrotreater-fire-breaks-out-at-houston-refinery https://www.industrialfireworld.com/567881/hydrotreater-fire... This linked event was last week when I was actually driving through the massive tank farm of this old refinery which extends to both sides of a state highway which has always cut through. I wondered what that smoke was.
    - Scoundreller 6y ago
      You might like these videos by the US Chemical Safety Board: https://www.youtube.com/user/USCSB https://www.youtube.com/user/USCSB
EdSchouten 6y ago
Just to quantify how large the explosion in Beirut was: the TNT equivalence was about 200 times as high as the explosion in Enschede. Crazy!

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Gys 6y ago

> Prior to the disaster it had a good safety record and met all safety audits. At least one thing that differs from Beirut

Scoundreller 6y ago
Though... > When it was built in 1977, the warehouse was outside the town, but as new residential areas were built it became surrounded by low-income housing and > However, the illegal use of shipping containers reduced safety Netherlands starting to sound like Lebanon
- fuzzfactor 6y ago
  There's a whole magazine about things like this. In previous decades they had feature articles and a few pages of fine print with a couple sentences about each reported incident large or small. Fortunately most were not fatalities but were kind of grim like obituaries anyway. _Man checks oil tank with lighter and lives._ Now it looks like their website is mainly an incident log: https://www.industrialfireworld.com/567881/hydrotreater-fire-breaks-out-at-houston-refinery https://www.industrialfireworld.com/567881/hydrotreater-fire... This linked event was last week when I was actually driving through the massive tank farm of this old refinery which extends to both sides of a state highway which has always cut through. I wondered what that smoke was.
  - Scoundreller 6y ago
    You might like these videos by the US Chemical Safety Board: https://www.youtube.com/user/USCSB https://www.youtube.com/user/USCSB

EdSchouten 6y ago

Just to quantify how large the explosion in Beirut was: the TNT equivalence was about 200 times as high as the explosion in Enschede. Crazy!