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A powerful explosion tore through a fireworks facility in Yolo County on Tuesday evening, unleashing a firestorm that lit up the skies over the small town of Esparto, California. Flames, thick smoke, and live fireworks shot into the air in a chaotic, fiery display that could be seen for miles.
Fire crews with Cal Fire were dispatched urgently just before 6 PM when the blaze ignited along County Road 23. As they arrived on the scene, responders were met with a towering column of black smoke rising ominously over Esparto—a sight that residents in nearby northern Solano County also reported witnessing.
The Yolo County Office of Emergency Services confirmed the fire involved a fireworks facility and acknowledged receiving numerous calls about explosions in the area. While the exact cause remains unclear, authorities have launched a full investigation to uncover what triggered the incident.
Adding to the surreal scene, a chilling video circulated on X (formerly Twitter), capturing fireworks shooting uncontrollably across the landscape. The footage, which quickly gained attention, was captioned: “Fireworks facilities (based in S.F.), in Esparto CA spraying fireworks for a 1/2 mile radius…”
Fireworks Factory Explosion In India's Sivakasi
A similar incident occurred in India's Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu. The region, which supplies nearly 90% of the fireworks and pyrotechnics in India, has nearly 1,100, of Tamil Nadu's 1500 fireworks factory.At least eight people were killed in the incident and several others were injured. It is still not known how the fire started at the factory.
i dont mess with fireworks anymore after my thailand incident
on new years thai people go up and down the beach selling fireworks to tourists.. and i mean fucking BIG fireworks, like those 2+ feet tall round cyclinders that shoot a coconut sized charge into the air and explode into those massive umbrella displays, etc
i spent hours haggling and acquiring a massive stockpile of fireworks to set them up on beach and do a firework show,, I still remember a mom coming up to me (around 25 and drunk at the time), asking if I knew what i was doing... and i assured her I did in fact know what i was doing
spent a lot of time lining them all up, digging holes, etc to secure them
when it was time for the show, i just started going down the line setting them off, and i was about 75% of the way thru the line and one of the "smaller" fireworks just exploded right next to my head... my ears were ringing and i was burned on the side of my face
and that was one of the smaller ones... it really shook me, i realized that if one of those larger ones had misfired like that i would 100% be dead. wasnt thinking of the fact that they were cheaply made chinese fireworks, which is also why they were so cheap
the show was pretty awesome tho, had thousands of people cheering and applauding, not realizing how serious it almost got haha.. i actually have a video of it but the camera briefly goes into the air when it explodes on me, but you can see the sparks, etc fly up into view when it happened and hear it, and hear some gasps from the audience
im totally over fireworks now... they're basically pretty explosives
PATS16N0
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Re-watching ‘Life on our Planet’ on Netflix. I have some unsatisfied questions about evolution but those aside, I don’t disbelieve it either, and the putting together of Earth’s past and the rise and fall of life in this series is great.
8 episodes. Starts with plants developing photosynthesis a bazillion years ago and makes its way up through all the ages. Most interesting parts I thought was the detailing the bazillion year re-rise of new kinds of eco-systems with every cataclysmic climate change event that wiped out nearly all life on the planet.
It doesn’t focus overly on the dinosaur eras which is nice since that isn’t really anything we haven’t heard plenty about already.
One new nugget I did learn, though. I always thought of the end of the dinosaurs as largely a very gradual thing outside the immediate impact zone. Now that they have the actual crater, the information is a lot different than what was probably implied more in the 80’s and 90’s, where it was a process of the food chain completely breaking down.
The Dinosaura basically internationally all suffered a basically immediate terrible fucking fate. Like 24 fucking hours later annihilated after reigning for hundreds of millions of years.
Atmosphere got super charged and literally slow cooked continents of them alive where there was no fucking escape from it. A massive cloud of dust cascaded over the entire fucking planet. Every forest caught on fire because it became so fucking hot and fucked.
Basically if you couldn’t hide in a fucking hole and live there you were fucked, for millions of years, as soon as that thing hit the fucking planet. No slow breakdown of the food chain on the Amercas at all. Just running from an oven heat there was no escaping.
Absolutely fucked.
