Enschede Fireworks Disaster
January 25th, 2006
On May 13, 2000, in the eastern Dutch town of Enschede, a fire broke out in the S.E Fireworks depot. Twenty-two people died and a neighbourhood was destroyed.
Check out the awesome and terrible power of the disaster in the Enschede fireworks disaster video.
Also see the Wikipedia entry on Enschede fireworks disaster.
January 26th, 2006 at 12:44 pm
Kind of makes one want to have an electrical fire start in a warehouse of fireworks on an uninhabiated neighbourhood, doesn’t it! Very cool!
January 26th, 2006 at 5:23 pm
That’s not a knife, this is a knife.
That’s one heck of a fire.
January 26th, 2006 at 6:43 pm
HEY IM 13 LOL (LAUGH OUT LOUD FOR ALL THOSE SLOW OLD PEOPLE) I LOVED THE FIREWORK THING IT WAS KEWL. I JUST FEEL BAD FOR THAT GUY THAT WHO VIDEO TAPED IT HE TOOK A BEATING!! HE JUST GOT BACK UP AND TAPED!! (WHAT A IDOT!) LOL
PAIGE *******
January 29th, 2006 at 12:20 pm
saw u on the wall street journal….
so come here to watch and listen all your fancy stuffs`~
i like the firework factory video..
February 22nd, 2006 at 5:09 am
It may be ‘kewl’ and it certainly was ‘one heck of a fire’. It destroyed a neighbourhood with a disaster area of approx 40 hectares, killed 22 people including the camera man and 4 firemen and injured another 947. It destroyed 293 houses and damaged another 1,500. As well as businesses and industrial buildings. Over 10,000 people had to be evacuated due to an asbestos worry.
As for seeing it in an uninhabitated neighbourhood, great, but this happened in the centre of a populated town with the majority of the citizens and even the local authorities unaware of the warehouses existence.
June 19th, 2006 at 5:54 am
The terrible disaster was not “cool”. Only stupid kids here? Boxy you are right.
July 14th, 2006 at 6:11 am
okay…now listen to me…THE CAMERAMAN SURVIVED!!!!
March 13th, 2008 at 12:29 am
Dada: He did not survive, sorry to say that. The camera did. Boxy, go home and play CS or sumt’n.
Sheesh, show some respect here. I might laugh at videos of the Pepcon disaster next time…