Heartbreaking

No way they were getting out of that unscathed. Thankfully, with their lives intact.

According to Lina's sister and their son, they survived and were taken to the hospital for injuries, and are now recovering.

I hope they are ok.

That was before everyone had recording devices in their hands.

It looks like the fire started adjacent to the fireworks storage. Once the fireworks caught, it was all over.

I'd heard other reports of the roaring, like a jet plane. It was very clear in this video, sounded like liquefied gas storage had been breached.

It took several years for the PEPCON explosion sequence to be determined, part of it requiring an advance in computer technology and modeling. Likely this will take a few years and persuasive jail sentences to piece together.

Imad, once your wounds heal and your hearing comes back, listen to your girlfriend. Hang your camera out the window, just stay behind a wall.

Most people were injured by standing near a window watching the fire and flames, then the unanticipated explosion suddenly went off.

The concussion wave of the explosion caused the windows to explode out and cut and spray high velocity glass shards in the faces of the viewers and observers, badly injuring them.

That must be where I first read.

The car was fully engulfed, and this was during the worst of the Seattle unrest, and all I could think of was that it was mined (I didn't see the people who belonged to the car, never did find out where they went). I did skedaddle away from the window and get as far away as I could. Good advice.

the explosion happened, THOUSANDS had injuries from shattered glass windows,

https://nationalpost.com/news/beirut-blast-measured-2-75-kilotons-how-does-that-compare-with-other-major-explosions-in-history

Driving during the explosion

https://i.imgur.com/iKHkPm1.mp4

All the people in Beirut. The ones filming, the ones just going about their lives, the people on the ground who were fighting the fire and undoubtedly died. The 300,000 homeless. I can't stop thinking about them. On the one hand, it's one more event in almost four years of horrendous events, and one more event in the ceaseless movement of the Corona virus. On the other hand, it's 300,000 people now homeless. It's overwhelming. And yet I see photos of people in the street cleaning up, doing what they can, in any way, to restore some semblance or normalcy. I can't say what it is, but it's getting to me.

I just hope when Imad's hearing comes back, he listens to his wife.

The sound of the new flames and explosions were ominous, even without knowledge of the ammonium nitrate.

glad to hear the women are ok.

... and everyone else there.