CCTV footage of the blast. I believe this is the initial (smaller) blast. This is looking to be Pepcon or West Fertilizer size if not worse.
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Drone footage of the aftermath
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUDL9NE-y1A&feature=youtu.be
Many of the injuries from blasts like this are a result of watching the fire through a window.
These effects have been shown throughout many of the large explosions over time.
Example: The Halifax blast in Canada:
Many of the wounds inflicted by the blast were permanently debilitating, such as those caused by flying glass or by the flash of the explosion. Thousands of people had stopped to watch the ship burning in the harbour, many from inside buildings, leaving them directly in the path of glass fragments from shattered windows. Roughly 5900 eye injuries were reported, and 41 people lost their sight permanently.[107]
Hatcher notes (p.521) that in the Lake Denmark powder factory explosion, "...the commanding officer of Picatinny Arsenal heard the fire alarm at Lake Denmark and ordered a phone call made to see if help might be needed. The operator reported that he couldn't get through, and Col. Ramsey ordered him to keep trying, meanwhile watching the column of smoke on the hill about 5/8 of a mile distant. Suddenly he saw an enormous flash and with excellent judgment, he threw himself flat. A few seconds later, when the blast hit, portions of the glass from the windows through which he had been looking were blown across the room and embedded deeply in an oak door."
So if you see a flash, duck. If you're watching a fire like that, move away from the glass.
Teach your kids that, too.
Terry
REFs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion#Destruction_and_loss_of_lifeHatcher's Notebook, "Explosions and powder fires"
Cf also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor#Injuries_and_damageHowever most of the injured were hurt by the secondary blast effects, that is the shattered, falling or blown-in glass.[23][80] The intense light from the meteor, momentarily 30 times brighter than the Sun,[46] also produced injuries, leading to over 180 cases of eye pain, and 70 people subsequently reported temporary flash blindness.[81] Twenty people reported ultraviolet burns similar to sunburn, possibly intensified by the presence of snow on the ground.
