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Showing posts with label Destroyed in Seconds. Show all posts
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Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Bulldozer rampage [video]
An angry man named Mark Hemier from a small town of Colorado went on a rampage to destroy buildings and vehicles with his bulldozer. His main targets - a bank, a hardward store, a concrete factory, town hall , police department and home of former mayor.
Hemier was a skilled welder and had armoured his bulldozer with half inch thick dual iron sheets and concrete in between them.
After destroying property worth US $7,000,000, his bulldozer got stucked under a steel structure and he committed suicide before the police could catch him.
Saturday, July 9, 2011
PEPCON Disaster - The Greatest Chemical Explosion in American History
The PEPCON disaster was an industrial disaster that occurred in Henderson, Nevada on May 4, 1988 at the Pacific Engineering Production Company of Nevada (PEPCON) plant. The chemical fire and subsequent explosions claimed two lives, injured 372 people, and caused an estimated US$100 million of damage. A large portion of the Las Vegas metropolitan area 10 miles (16 km) away was affected, and several agencies activated disaster plans.
Pepcon was one of the only two American producers of ammonium perchlorate, an oxidizer used in solid fuel rocket boosters, including the Space Shuttle and military weapons. The fire and explosions were caught on videotape by television engineer Dennis Todd, who was on Black Mountain performing maintenance on a television tower.
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