In Australia, South of Gladstone, Queensland, in Sept 2014, a road train carrying 52 tons of ammonium nitrate crashed near Angellala Creek, set off a massive explosion, destroyed 2 bridges, 2 fire trucks, damaged several other vehicles, and registered 2.1 on the Richter scale. Parts of the wreckage were found up to 1 km (0.6213 miles) away from the scene.
It said no one was injured but I'll bet that truck driver's ears are still ringing. Addison, Ill. Four cars and homes suffered minor damage.
Israel Did Not Intercept Hezbollah Pagers That Exploded — It Made Them.
Unbeknownst to Hezbollah, Israel had been secretly manufacturing the pagers that Hezbollah was buying for years.
Israel has injured thousands across Lebanon, with hundreds in critical condition and dozens more dead, this week in two waves of simultaneous explosions of electronic communications equipment targeting Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorists.
The blasts — which may have killed 19 and wounded 150 of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) members — started on Tuesday afternoon around 3:30 p.m. local time when pagers used by Hezbollah started beeping with a message from their leadership.
After a few beeps, the pagers simultaneously exploded across the country, blinding hundreds, tearing off limbs, and leaving gaping holes in bodies.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (H – Gaza) reacted to the pager attacks that injured a large percentage and killed a number of the Hezbollah Islamic terrorist organization and the memes that arose out of it by tweeting that it’s “disgusting”.
Tlaib is understandably upset at Islamic terrorists being wounded and dying. And by American infidels making fun of them.
Hundreds of Hezbollah members wounded in Lebanon in mass pager hack.
Reports from Arab and Israeli media have said that over 1,200 people have been wounded.
UPDATE: Lebanese Health Ministry says 8 people have been killed, including the son of a Hezbollah member of the Lebanese Parliament, and as many as 2,700 injured.
Hundreds of members of the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah were seriously wounded on Tuesday in Lebanon's south and the southern suburbs of Beirut when the pagers they use to communicate exploded, security sources told Reuters.
A Reuters journalist saw 10 Hezbollah members bleeding from wounds in the southern suburb of Beirut known as Dahiyeh.
Iranian ambassador Mojtaba Amani was reportedly injured in the explosion, according to state-owned Mehr News.
A senior Lebanese security source told Al-Hadath that Israel infiltrated the communication system of individual devices and detonated them.
According to reports, the phones were called before the explosion for some period of seconds to increase the chance that whoever received the call would pick it up and be maximally wounded.
The pagers detonated were the latest model brought in by Hezbollah in recent months, three security sources told Reuters.
A Hezbollah official cited by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) said that hundreds of members had such pager devices, and speculated that malware could have caused the device to heat up and explode. The same official cited by the WSJ reported that some people felt the pagers heat up, disposing of them before they exploded.
Additionally, the same report by WSJ quoted Hezbollah officials stating that the number of casualties was rising too quickly to count.
A Hezbollah official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the detonation of the pagers was the "biggest security breach" the group had been subjected to in nearly a year of war with Israel.
A Reuters journalist saw ambulances rushing through the southern suburbs of the capital, Beirut, amid widespread panic. Residents said explosions were taking place even 30 minutes after the initial blasts.
Lebanon's Health Ministry urged health workers to head to hospitals, according to the Arab media channel NBN.
An Al-Jazeera security source confirmed that communication devices carried by Hezbollah operatives exploded in several areas across Lebanon, not only in Beirut but also in Beqaa and southern Lebanon. Another Lebanese security source claimed that Israel hacked into Hezbollah's radio communication system and caused the explosions.
According to Al-Hadath, the IDF remotely detonated the communication devices using advanced technology. However, Israel has not taken responsibility for the explosions.
Hossein Mortada, a Hezbollah-affiliated journalist who works for the Syrian news agency Al-Alam, told individuals and media in Lebanon not to post any videos or photos of the event, especially of the wounded, in a post to X (Twitter).
Reuters contributed to this report. This is a developing story.
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-820536
SUV explodes after man tries to light a cigarette near propane canisters.
(Something was obviously on or leaking.)
An SUV parked in a Van Nuys parking lot on Thursday night suddenly exploded after the driver lit a cigarette next to some propane canisters he stored inside.
Firefighters and police rushed to a supermarket parking lot in the 7200 block of Van Nuys Boulevard after receiving a call about an SUV that exploded around 10:30 p.m., police said. When first responders arrived, the man told them he had been trying to light a cigarette when the explosion happened. Investigators said he was living in the vehicle during the explosion.
He suffered minor injuries and was taken to a nearby hospital, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
Pieces of the parked vehicle flew in every direction, one of which lodged into a nearby tree. The explosion left the Toyota SUV mostly in mangled pieces. The sound of the explosion could be heard at least a few blocks away, according to a man who lives around the corner from the parking lot, who said it was "like an earthquake rattling the windows."
"But it was gone as soon as it started," said Ken Smith, adding that he looked out his window and saw his neighbors standing outside their home and looking around after the loud boom.
LAPD closed the parking lot following the detonation.
No other details have been released by authorities.
SS John Burke
During WWII Liberty ships carried weapons, ammunition, food, tools, hardware, vehicles, and other things for the war effort. They could also be equipped to carry a large number of troops by rigging bunks in the holds similar to those used by the armed guard. Liberty ships began taking troops and materials wherever they were needed, crossing both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Like other Liberty Ships, John Burke transported war materials between the United States and the rear areas of the Pacific War, often calling at Pearl Harbor, Australia, Guadalcanal, Hollandia and Manaus.
On what would be her final trip in late 1944, Burke departed Seattle, Washington for Guam, where she spent several days loading munitions for the invasion force on the island of Mindoro.
Burke then departed with the 100-ship "Uncle Plus 13" convoy, bound for Leyte in the Philippines. The convoy arrived at Leyte the night of December 27.
On the morning of December 28, 1944, Burke and the other ships in the Mindoro-bound convoy were at general quarters shortly after receiving the dawn weather report that reported that air cover would not launch until the poor weather cleared. The crews began their wait for the inevitable arrival of Japanese aircraft.
At about 0815 hours, the first kamikaze appeared on the American ships' radar, and orders were given for the convoy to begin evasive maneuvering. Through holes in the clouds, the Japanese pilots sighted the American force as it steamed south of Cebu and Bohol Islands. The Japanese aircraft were three A6M Zero fighters of the 201st Air Group, which had taken off from Cebu at 0950 were led by Lt. Masami Hoshino and each carried a 250 kg bomb. At approximately 1020 hours, diving through anti-aircraft fire and despite damage to his aircraft, a Japanese kamikaze, chose the ammunition ship SS John Burke as his target and crashed between Burke's #2 and #3 cargo holds.
Semi Truck Explodes, Injuring 9 Los Angeles Firefighters.
Multiple Los Angeles firefighters were injured on Thursday morning while responding to a fire involving a pressurized cylinder on a semi truck that exploded as they worked to extinguish the flames.
The explosion happened around 7 a.m. local time while fire crews were battling flames from one of the truck’s two compressed 100-gallon natural gas tanks.
“The unique aspect of this vehicle is that it’s not run on diesel or gasoline, but it is actually propelled with CNG, or compressed natural gas,” said LAFD Capt. Erik Scott. “The explosion was significant. The ball of flame was as high as these telephone poles, and it actually did explode one of the transformers nearby.”
Video of the incident showed the powerful explosion shooting up a quick fireball that quickly dissipated likely due to the fuel source being natural gas.
“This is a difficult day in Los Angeles,” Mayor Karen Bass said during a news conference at the hospital where the firefighters were being treated. “I’m here with a simple message to our firefighters in the building behind me and in fire stations across our city watching the news this morning unfold. The four million people of Los Angeles stand with you.”
Dr. Molly Deane, a trauma surgeon at Harbor UCLA Medical Center, said that it was a miracle that some of the firefighters were not “more severely injured” from the explosion.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-semi-truck-explodes-injuring-9-los-angeles-firefighters
Nitrous Bottle Explosion: What Causes It?
July 19, 2022
By now, you may have seen pictures circulating on social media that depict the result of a Pontiac G8 being blown apart by a nitrous bottle explosion. So what happened?
At first glance, it’s obvious that the bottle was in the car’s trunk, which is normal. However, since this incident took place in Florida, and during the summer months, temperatures inside vehicles can reach well over 100 degrees. And heat is what builds pressure in a nitrous bottle, but there’s more to this story because this failure is not an expected result of an over-pressured bottle.
These types of bottle failures are not the normal result of overpressure.
One picture shows a solid plug in place of the factory pressure relief fitting. The bottle in this photo has no way of relieving overpressure.
Luckily, there were no deaths involved in this incident. Although the occupants did sustain injuries that required a trip to the hospital.
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