Posted on 12/21/2016 6:19:42 PM PST by Mariner
Shocking video shows explosion of fireworks at Santiaguito Market in Tultepec, Mexico that injured at least 60 people.
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This video shows some serious shock and awe.
Just imagine a few years from now after a Hillary election and the border remains wide open and there are factories like this all across the southern US.
And more than likely banrolled by ISIS.
During the mid-90’s i was standing on the beach in Falmouth, MA when just 30 seconds into the firework show the barge exploded.
It was something else, the whole load of fireworks shooting all over the place.
Besides the long afterglow the show was shorter than originally planned but was pretty amazing looking just the sdame.
The workers got hurt, they jumped in the water after some bad burns.
Everybody survived.
A shame it did not go up at night, would have been a helluva show.
In 1985, I was on sales calls in Cushing, Oklahoma and heard this hellacious explosion.
Sheriff, OHP and Firetrucks from surrounding towns began passing through Cushing and I wondered what was going, so I followed a firetruck, which lead me to Hallet, some 30 miles away, by road.
Devastating scene. It looked like a massive bombing campaign was waged on the area.
I had called on the owner weeks before to see if our services would be of benefit.
Very sad. I don’t recall how many people died but, my company and some friends donated monies to a fund setup for the victims and their families.
Amazing scene and I thought “This is what war looks like”.
Now, 30 years later, my Masonic lodge sponsored three brothers, who had been severely burned in a fireworks explosion in Mexico, to be cared for by the Shriners hospital in Sacramento, CA.
There were aged 10-14 at the time of their injuries and one of their brothers had his wedding in our lodge.
They looked great and came to one our Stated Meeting Dinners to express their gratitude.
The Shriners paid for their operations, care and housing of thier families while they were put back together, as much as was possible.
I will pray for these families and maybe a few of our hospitals will take some of the victims in for whatever their needs are.
Holy Smokes!!
Same video as yesterday.
In 1973 I lived at NAVCOMMSTA Cheltenham in Maryland, and they were going to have a big fireworks show on the base for the 4th of July. (This was a very small communications base just a couple of miles from Andrews AFB.
So, they had a couple of fire trucks parked bow to stern, and about 20 feet of stacked fireworks.
The was a sailor (I remember his name was Latrell because everyone was talking about him afterwards) who had a traffic flare that he was lighting to use to light fireworks. The little emory cloth thing that lit the flare caught on fire, and he just dropped it, and apparently it got blown by a gust onto the stack of fireworks.
I was sitting on a hillside probably 40 yards away (They did things differently back then) when I noticed a commotion around the fireworks stack. Latrell was bent over the stack throwing fireworks, and people were running around.
The whole thing went up at once, it was all done in probably 15-30 seconds as I recall, amazingly, nobody was hurt. I remember one of the base fire trucks looked like it had been attacked by machine guns and RPGS. It was completely blackened and charred, had big and small craters and holes.
Back in the Eighties, we had a friend who worked for the city, and he pulled a few strings to let us drive our car up to the top of a hill where they were launching the fireworks, so we would get a bird’s eye view.
I remember there ended up being five or six carloads of us up there, and they were launching the fireworks close by, and our view of them going off was grand.
One of them (a starburst, I recall) took off, but instead of going
“SHHH HHH HHHH HHHH H H HHH HH HHH HHH HHH HHH H HHH BOOOOOM!”
It went “SHHHH HH HH BOOOM!”
These things that looked like huge flaming coffee cans were hitting the asphalt all around us bouncing, trailing flames and exploding in sharp, percussive blasts!
I watched transfixed for a second or two, then came to my senses and dove under a parked car...everyone else was doing the same!
Heh, nobody got hurt, but someone who was higher up the chain than my friend came over and kicked everyone off the hill! We didn’t argue...:)
I’ve always wondered why mexicans have such a thing for fireworks. I grew up in Kansas and the only time we had fireworks was on July 4. I moved to Texas in the late 60s and the mexicans here fire them off at every opportunity. Christmas, New Years, weddings, birthdays. Strange.
That sounds like it was crazy.
Nothing like watching professional fireworks being lit not the way they were supposed to be...
Falmouth, MAINE, right? Abbreviation is ME, not MA (Massachusetts).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6FDlxBrCao Year was 2010
Heh ... coincidence. There was a fireworks barge explosion in Falmouth, Mass too, 1997.
http://www.rbbi.com/folders/acc/firewks/fal8.htm
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