Seems a fire in the docks ignited explosive material stored there.
Looks awful. Haven't the poor people there suffered enough.
Re: Massive explosion in Beirut
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 7:42 pm
by kokomO
Looks horrific, pray for the people affected
Re: Massive explosion in Beirut
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 8:08 pm
by Rich Tea Wellin
Some of videos of it are crazy. Feel for those involved
Re: Massive explosion in Beirut
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 9:30 pm
by NuneatonO's
This is absolutely hearbreaking.
Thousands of people potentially injured across Beirut; in a Country that has experienced more atrocities than we could ever imagine fellow human-beings having to endure.
Re: Massive explosion in Beirut
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 9:44 pm
by Ronnie Hotdogs
I’ve never seen anything like it, it’s terrifying.
Re: Massive explosion in Beirut
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 10:09 pm
by Mikero
The second bang looked to be a nitrate explosion, the white cloud was similar to some of the IRA bombs that used fertiliser. This happened years ago in Halifax Nova Scotia, a nitate ship blew up in the harbour flattening all the wooden buildings and killing hundreds.
Mikero
Re: Massive explosion in Beirut
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 10:16 pm
by Real Al
Mikero wrote: ↑Tue Aug 04, 2020 10:09 pm
The second bang looked to be a nitrate explosion, the white cloud was similar to some of the IRA bombs that used fertiliser. This happened years ago in Halifax Nova Scotia, a nitate ship blew up in the harbour flattening all the wooden buildings and killing hundreds.
Mikero
Think that one was high explosives. Texas in 1947 was ammonium nitrate, as this is suspected to be.
A 2 ton anchor was thrown 1.6 miles. That's about the same as Brisbane road to the Olympic stadium!
Re: Massive explosion in Beirut
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 10:20 pm
by Clive Evans
Govt says Ammoniam Nitrate not checked for 6 years. It is very dodgy stuff.
Re: Massive explosion in Beirut
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 10:23 pm
by PutneyO
West Side Story wrote: ↑Tue Aug 04, 2020 10:20 pm
Govt says Ammoniam Nitrate not checked for 6 years. It is very dodgy stuff.
I heard it was copper nitrate
Re: Massive explosion in Beirut
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 10:48 pm
by NuneatonO's
Just reading that, to add to the current problems, hospitals have been so badly damaged that they cannot treat patients.
The blasts caught on film, look horrific. Apparently, they were felt 200 Kms away in Cyprus.
This is truly, truly awful.
Just to add that leaders from many Countries are offering words of support via Twitter. FFS you arseholes, instead of hollow words that mean sod all and help even less, how about just getting essential medical supplies onto air force aircraft; and getting them dispatched, with medics, NOW!
Re: Massive explosion in Beirut
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 11:27 pm
by StockholmO
As explosions go that was something else! So sorry got those who were killed or injured.
Re: Massive explosion in Beirut
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2020 12:57 am
by Adz
Just seen this, wow that's horrifying
Re: Massive explosion in Beirut
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2020 2:09 am
by tuffers#1
RedO wrote: ↑Tue Aug 04, 2020 9:44 pm
I’ve never seen anything like it, it’s terrifying.
You dont remember this ?
Re: Massive explosion in Beirut
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2020 6:37 am
by greyhound
looked just like an HB going of.
Re: Massive explosion in Beirut
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2020 9:02 am
by DuvB
Sad
Re: Massive explosion in Beirut
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2020 12:31 pm
by Sid Bishop
Huge blast, looked akin to a small atomic bomb going off.
Surely many more will be found to have died than the current toll of death, absolutely awful.
Re: Massive explosion in Beirut
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2020 12:45 pm
by MalvoliO
NuneatonO's wrote: ↑Tue Aug 04, 2020 10:48 pm
Just to add that leaders from many Countries are offering words of support via Twitter. FFS you arseholes, instead of hollow words that mean sod all and help even less, how about just getting essential medical supplies onto air force aircraft; and getting them dispatched, with medics, NOW!
Good to see that some (Jordan, Israel and Iran to name just three regional countries) have already started to say/do exactly that:
Ayman Safadi, Jordan's foreign minister, said his country is ready to send any needed help to Lebanon over the blast.
In a statement, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi offered help and said they are ready to send medical and humanitarian aid via international mediators.
"Iran is fully prepared to render assistance in any way necessary," Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Twitter.
NuneatonO's wrote: ↑Tue Aug 04, 2020 10:48 pm
Just to add that leaders from many Countries are offering words of support via Twitter. FFS you arseholes, instead of hollow words that mean sod all and help even less, how about just getting essential medical supplies onto air force aircraft; and getting them dispatched, with medics, NOW!
Good to see that some (Jordan, Israel and Iran to name just three regional countries) have already started to say/do exactly that:
Ayman Safadi, Jordan's foreign minister, said his country is ready to send any needed help to Lebanon over the blast.
In a statement, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi offered help and said they are ready to send medical and humanitarian aid via international mediators.
"Iran is fully prepared to render assistance in any way necessary," Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Twitter.
After the Iran- Iraq earthquake
Assistance was refused .
Didnt somewhere else basically say F off a few years back with another Earthquake , as if to say we are not that poor & desperate. Think they had bad relations with the west to.
Re: Massive explosion in Beirut
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2020 5:09 pm
by Thor
I used to work at Bush Boake Allen on Blackhorse Road, and it was said that if it ever went up half or more of walthamstow would disappear in the blast. Obviously security around such things were high and entry was restricted to such products that could cause such things to go bang.
Re: Massive explosion in Beirut
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2020 5:46 pm
by tuffers#1
There was a huge transformer at hawker sidley & it used to get a bit tempremental
Had to be checked virtually every hour , if that had gone bang E17 E18 & 1 or 2 other little places
would have gone to dust, well frazzled at the very least . .
Re: Massive explosion in Beirut
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2020 6:03 pm
by PutneyO
The report on the BBC news is truly upsetting
Re: Massive explosion in Beirut
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2020 6:41 pm
by Chicken Dhansak
Apparently, reports say that the explosion was equivalent to one fifth the power of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. Devastating, feel so sorry
for them, they are probably the most western democracy of the Arab nations, but totally corrupt.
Re: Massive explosion in Beirut
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2020 12:18 am
by StockholmO
In 1944 at RAF Fauld in Staffordshire 4000 tons of high explosive bombs blew up including 500 million rounds of ammunition. About seventy people were killed including a number of Italian POW’s.
The explosion caused a 300 foot deep by 250 foot across crater which is still visible today. It’s still closed off today because of the remaining unexploded ammunition.
It was one of the largest non nuclear explosions in history and the largest on U.K. soil.
