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Feb. 8th, 2007 09:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingJust before lunchtime on May 4th, 1988, at a facility near Henderson, Nevada, a panicked maintenance crew could be seen dashing away from the site of the Pacific Engineering Production Company, also known as PEPCON. Behind them, a moderate but ambitious-looking fire was establishing itself in a large storage lot.
The crew had been repairing a wind-damaged steel-and-fiberglass building when a stray spark from their welder somehow managed to set fire to the structure. . . .
There were over four thousand tons of ammonium perchlorate in the storage area that day, so the anxiety-stricken workers fled with great enthusiasm.
(ROCKET FUEL PLANT EXPLODES!)
The crew had been repairing a wind-damaged steel-and-fiberglass building when a stray spark from their welder somehow managed to set fire to the structure. . . .
There were over four thousand tons of ammonium perchlorate in the storage area that day, so the anxiety-stricken workers fled with great enthusiasm.
(ROCKET FUEL PLANT EXPLODES!)
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Date: 2007-02-09 03:07 am (UTC)The delay between the explosion and the sound tells me that's about a mile away from the camera. That is one BIGASS explosion.
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Date: 2007-02-09 05:47 pm (UTC)That area is no longer a rocket fuel plant of course. It's now an industrial park, surrounded by auto dealers, houses, I-515, I-215 and the nearby Sunset Station and Fiesta Henderson casinos.
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Date: 2007-02-09 09:17 pm (UTC)The PEPCON explosion is about halfway through. The first half is another series of equally impressive explosions.