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I read last week about unconfirmed reports that the fire was caused by workers welding a door. It would be tragically ironic if a report that highlighted secur
by gorbypark 6y ago
I read last week about unconfirmed reports that the fire was caused by workers welding a door. It would be tragically ironic if a report that highlighted security concerns about a missing door is what caused the explosions.
In a July 20, 2020, report to the president and prime minister — just two weeks prior to the explosion — Lebanese security services warned that there were serious security flaws at the facility that left the ammonium nitrate open to theft.
One door of the unguarded warehouse was missing, while there was also a hole in the southern wall, the report said.
- Uberphallus 6y agoAmmonium nitrate is notoriously hard to detonate, I would rule it out but I think any evidence of such chains of events, or otherwise, has been vaporized.
- datameta 6y agoApparently there was a secondary cache of fireworks stored next to the ammonium nitrate. Probably placed there under the assumption that if there's already an astronomic amount of explosive material they might as well store it in one place. Which completely overlooks the fact that the fireworks made a perfect primer for the detonation as ammonium nitrate is actually somewhat difficult to set off on its own. That's why we often see large amounts of it going off somewhere making the news every few years - it's misleadingly safe to store. Similarly, diesel won't catch a spark but I'm not going to advocate storing fireworks in a storehouse of the stuff.