The in-depth story of the seven most devastating explosion disasters.
00:00:00 - 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.
00:11:19 - The Enschede Fireworks Disaster
The Enschede Fireworks disaster turned a minor incident into a neighborhood-destroying calamity.
00:26:41 - The Olympic Pipeline Tragedy
Corporate neglect transformed a serene woodland creek into a hellish inferno that claimed young lives and forever scarred a community.
00:39:00 - 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.