Toronto area people report in! GIANT FUCKING EXPLOSION

[Stormwing]

HUGE RIDICULOUS EXPLOSIONS ROCKING TORONTO SUBURBS (UPDATED AGAIN + PIC)
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=8ef01ab5-9b21-4027-868b-efa6ea63fdc4
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2008/08/10/explosion-rocks-west-end-photos-reports.aspx
NEW: http://cp24.com/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20080810/080810_explosion/20080810/?hub=CP24Home
Things seem to be calming down, they're still fighting the fires.

ONE CONFIRMED DEATH. A firefighter was killed, in the service for 25 years.
1 person missing.
18 injured.

You've got to see it to believe it.
http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/340/000ry0.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3131/2748468377_f1ec0103cf_b.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3217/2749304882_7661ee989e_b.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scotteh/

Almost like a nuke going off...and bone-chilling screams @ 1:50.
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Close-up and terrifying. Watch to the end.
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The craziest shockwave + explosion you have quite possibly ever seen.
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Constant continuous explosions.
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Reminds me of those Vietnam War movies... (Go here if it'snot working) (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=OwZCmofbTgk)
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All of the units sent to the scene.
http://www.toronto.ca/fire/cadinfo/livecad.htm


Will keep looking for updates. That was a PROPANE depot. Jesus Christ.

[Bodzilla]

Ya links are broken. but god dam that things huge!

[Reaper Man]

Holy crap. The third video is crazy.

[Bastinka]

Holy crap, so was it just an accident or what?

All I can read is that it happened at the Propane place..

[Bodzilla]

there where people inside the factory when it exploded....

fucking hell.

[Anton]

Shit like that freaks me out. Crazy. :(

[Llama Juice]

.... oh dear pumpkins.

That's crazy talk.

[thehoodedsmack]

Say what? Huh. A lot of my family live in Toronto, so I hope they're alright. Propane depot, eh? Fun times.

[Amit]

Holy Shit! I knew something was wrong when I felt that tremble! And I'm 25 mins away from Toronto.

[Terry]

Holy crap, I need to call my family to see if they're alright. That's crazy.

[Ifafudafi]

In the rather eloquent words of Video#2:
Holy shit. What the fuck?!

Hope everyone's alright down there. That shockwave must have been freaking scary.

[Sel]

Scary shit.

[Con]

what a huge fireball O_O

[Masterz1337]

That is some crazy shit. Feels like watching 9-11 from afar.

[Stormwing]

Updated: things seem to be calming down. no serious injuries?!
http://cp24.com/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20080810/080810_explosion/20080810/?hub=CP24Home

Not a SINGLE major mainstream news station has said anything. (Only CNN had a 'breaking news' banner before, and now has a really tiny unnoticeable bit saying "Propane fireballs force evacuations (http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/08/10/toronto.explosion/index.html)") Local is keeping it on the down low too.

[blind]

What the fuckkkk.

[Hotrod]

Some of my family lives in Toronto, but they weren't near that, so they're all ok.

[Saggy]

Holy shit, and I'm supposed to be going there on Tuesday. Hopefully things will be better by then.

[Rob Oplawar]

Awesome explosion. The image of the flames backlighting the skyline is just incredible. Looks like art for a doomsday movie.

And I can appreciate the awesomeness of this explosion without guilt since nobody was hurt. Good stuff.

[Limited]

Omg, thats HUGE. Really hope no one got injured but the likelyhood of that is slim =\

I started to watch Cloverfield the other day (gave up cuz I actually felt sick, plus was
tired) and this reminded me of it for some reason.

[FRain]

That explosion was awesome, but due to it being in residential\industrial areas is kinda freaky.

[Evil_Monkey]

I started to watch Cloverfield the other day (gave up cuz I actually felt sick, plus was
tired) and this reminded me of it for some reason.
That's what I thought of when I was watching them vids, with people screaming and the camera in the style of first person.

[Xetsuei]

The explosion was amazing, it was like a mini-nuke. I wish I would've been there to see it.

[StankBacon]

damn that 1st vid with the fucking whole sky lighting up and the screams.... thats freaky shit....

[SnaFuBAR]

Reminds me of years ago when a huge power converter near our home exploded, it shook our house. Then the time a cargo ship exploded when I was fishing off the beach about 500 yards away.

[Zeph]

As I said over at GBX, that thing is huge. Only one of the videos puts it into real perspective. It sucks that this will cause a serious financial hit, but the videos are amazing. Right before the giant explosion, you can see the propane around the area that's been mixed with air catch fire in a fucking awesome effect.

I will definitely use these videos as source material for any explosion effects I use in my digital media career. It has a sheer raw power you dont get by manmade explosives such as warplane bombs, etc.

[n00b1n8R]

A firefighter is dead
1.

[DrunkenSamus]

Good thing I don't live near a ticking nuke propane facility.

[SnaFuBAR]

As I said over at GBX, that thing is huge. Only one of the videos puts it into real perspective. It sucks that this will cause a serious financial hit, but the videos are amazing. Right before the giant explosion, you can see the propane around the area that's been mixed with air catch fire in a fucking awesome effect.

I will definitely use these videos as source material for any explosion effects I use in my digital media career. It has a sheer raw power you dont get by manmade explosives such as warplane bombs, etc.

Look for videos of fuel-air (thermobaric) bombs. They work the same way. Search videos of the American "MOAB" and the Russian "FOAB". Possibly the BLU-88 as well (though I'm not sure that was thermobaric).

[CN3089]

Look for videos of fuel-air (thermobaric) bombs. They work the same way. Search videos of the American "MOAB" and the Russian "FOAB". Possibly the BLU-88 as well (though I'm not sure that was thermobaric).

The MOAB isn't thermobaric.

[killer9856]

Damn that was a massive explosion.

[Phopojijo]

Yea my cousin lives right near there, like -- less than a kilometer away.

He's been evacuated though.

[Party_Grunt]

We had a similar explosion near where I live. Killed four. Fuel additive production facility blew up.
http://www.taproot.com/wordpress/2008/01/03/t2-lab-explosion-movie-and-csb-press-release/
Has a video taken by a coast guard camera showing the initial explosion.

[ima_from_America]

You think Propane is bad, look what happened because of sugar particles.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/08/us/08sugar.html

[PlasbianX]

lol Sxephil has a video of him pretty much right near it.

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EDIT: That may be fake :X

[Con]

Here's a good view of the shockwave and larger explosion

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[Xetsuei]

Rofl

Guy: holy shit, HOLY SHIT!
Girl (in background): holy shit

[JDMFSeanP]

Hank Hill cripples the competition.

[DrunkenSamus]

Xetsuei™;289063']Rofl

Guy: holy shit, HOLY SHIT!
Girl (in background): holy shit

LOL the girl said it much slower. She was probably doing something and she turns around to see a fucking nuke. "ho.....shiiiit"

[Masterz1337]

That is amazing.

[LinkandKvel]

Xetsuei™;289063']Rofl

Guy: holy shit, HOLY SHIT!
Girl (in background): holy shit

Guy: I felt that heat
Girl: I felt that........explosion

[jngrow]

This may be the first time on the internet in a LONG while when the word "epic" was correctly used. That was epic. Pretty much the biggest explosion you can see without dying or putting yourself in extreme danger mb?

[CN3089]

Pretty much the biggest explosion you can see without dying or putting yourself in extreme danger mb?

That depends on how far away you are.

[ima_from_America]

Plasbian already posted it.

[Bodzilla]

SXC phil got it on tape too. :v:
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learn2Read.

/SLAP!

[DEElekgolo]

http://dangitbobby.com/images/200px-HankHill.jpg
It was all him.

[JDMFSeanP]

http://dangitbobby.com/images/200px-HankHill.jpg
It was all him.


Hank Hill cripples the competition.


Way to be late.

[n00b1n8R]

learn2Read.

/SLAP!
What choo talking bout? :raise:

[RhoM'bus²]

I'm dumb fuck my ass.

[Dr Pepper]

Wow good thing I live in a small town with only a near by paper factory

[Bastinka]

Pepper what is that in your avatar, it looks like chewbacca, a zombie and some blonde girl. Screens too dark to tell what it is, even when I highlight the avatar.

[Reaper Man]

..Chewbacca.

[Con]

How did you get a zombie/blonde girl out of that?

[ima_from_America]

I guess it's just his cross to bear.