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. Subscribe for more fascinating disaster documentaries: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClb6yg8d7eoZF6vnL4e8mog?sub_confirmation=1 Tragic history playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWtCh3_Fxp9FtVfTqXA06J3jhoxIFjpaF Suggest a topic for my next video: https://bit.ly/DarkHistoryTopics 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. We reveal the world's darkest and greatest disasters all based on true stories.