@@Albanian_AccountantIf the taxpayers have to pay for fire departments to make people homeless, then they need to make up for it, by relocating and reimbursing these families
Braindead fire department blowing up a residential home 20 feet from other occupied homes is so reckless and neglectful. They should all lose their jobs
The house was filled with "sweating" TNT. They literally had no choice but to detonate the house. The news articles say that there was either TNT or other explosive material all over the house. I wouldn't have felt safe living in a surrounding house knowing highly explosive material was next door and could explode at any moment.
So they had to remotely detonate from half way down the block, but didn't think a house 20 feet away with a family of 5 would be affected? This is so laughably incompetent, department needs to clean house and be charged for gross negligence.
Of course they did. Thats why the houses were vacated. Property damage sucks, but it’s better than the lives that would have been put at risk moving decades old dynamite.
@@joe4171 Decade old dynamite has been proven to just been a myth. You have to worry about dynamite that's been sitting for a year or two, but longer than that there hasn't been any documented cases of "decades old dynamite" being dangerous more than normal. The cops just wanted to justify their gross over budget.
@@billroberds9075seeing as they were renting, the city won’t have to buy them anything. But they should be 100% responsible for the family’s moving costs & anything they need to replace as well as damages to any of the homes that were damaged.
A couple of years back in my area, the cops decided to destroy a bunch of illegal fireworks found in a residential neighborhood. They brought in the bomb squad and a truck built to destroy explosives. They blew up the truck and cars park on the road. Homes had damage. You would think the lesson learned would have been passed on.
@@saxonsoldier67 unfortunatley dynamite doesnt stabilize in a mosit or wet environment. It actually helps the dynamite sweat or secrete nitroglycerin which is what makes the dynamite explode so thats why flooding is a no go.
they did NOT have to detonate that home. There are dozens or ways to neutralize the chemicals in the house. The authorities are an absolute embarrassment
Agreed...I need to set a reminder for what...about a decade? MY bet is they are not going to be able to cover lawyer fees, sooo if they win, maybe a 20-30% cut. Thoughts and prayers...I love religious logic...its so so so easy. I did my part.
Apparently the house that was demoed had old dynamite in the basement that had turned to nitroglycerin... and the house was vacant.... so the only way to make sure it didn't blow up on its own at a time when there were people around who could get killed, they detonated it. Yeah, neighbors losing their house sucks, it sucks even more if they die because their outside when it goes off accidentally.
@@elguapo87 "they", yeah, you tend to push your ideal WAY more then you push reality? What does it for you, not believing anybody that looks like ____, or the cops are perfect?
Well, you haven't heard of it, because that's not what happened. Actually read the news coverage and you'll learn that the home was full of aged dynamite so old that the bomb squad couldn't remove it without risking it going off. Detonating it in place was the safest way to remove it.
@@djcfromptthank you so much for sharing your knowledge with others you don't have to be so mean about it Not everyone has a clue as to go about how looking stuff up
@@rennapate8703 I don't mean to be rude, but not a single person in this comment section has made a shred of effort to determine what happened in this incident. This happened in my county, and I know people who work for this fire department. It makes me very angry to see their good name being drug through the mud because people online assume that they know all the facts and make no effort to type into Google something as simple as "Utah home exploded by fire department".
@@djcfrompt well then I guess this also happened in my country I will forgive the rudeness because there's no rudeness there unless if I take it that way I understand that and my apologies there People in this country go through stuff every single day no one is any more special than the next person
There was crystallized dynamite inside, and some of it was in the basement. Was about 50 years old. 49 years past its shelf life. Robots can’t go down the stares. There was nothing else for them to do other than sit back, and watch the fireworks
@@scottpolk1698 Dynamites shelf life is 1 year. After that, it begins to crystallize. It turns back into nitroglycerin. Nitroglycerin is extremely volatile. Moving it too fast can cause it to blow up
@Dankauff my suggestion was to "not" move it. I don't know much about dynamite, and I as much joking as anything, but it had been there 50 years with no incidents
@@fishanhunter Stop. Thats not the case at all. The home had unstable dynamite in the basement. There’s nothing else that could have been done. 100% not the FD fault.
Many municipalities don't require municipal employees to reside in the city itself. There can be no sense of empathy with outsiders who are trying to run things from without the community.
I don't get why as a society we can't just agree the government covers this kind of stuff. If a government action or error results in a destruction of property it should be covered no questions asked.
@@liisahmanni eh happens pretty often just doesn't make the national news or youtube. I live in a tiny town and successful lawsuits against the city have happened several times in the last couple years... i'm just one town
I love how they stood half a block down for their own safety but didn’t think or care about the safety of the people in the neighboring houses that are feet away?
@cameronmitchell6083 they were evacuated. I am not understanding how everyone thinks they would have a bomb squad, police and fire department there and not evacuated the neighbors😂😂but people in Utah are dumb😂😂
@@JuniorStarsUTD nothing natural about the negligence and incompetence of the city to limit the damage from a 'controlled' explosion that they framed as being kept within the footprint of the affected house. 7 houses were damaged due to the choice made by the fire department and their negligence in failing to limit the damage. The city should be sued.
@@epmcgee you do dynamite removal? Like paper wrapped nitro glycerine? The kind that sweats and can be set off by friction, impact, static discharge or any kind of contact in general? Nah didnt think so. NO ONE DOES. Bomb teams DETONATE EXPLOSIVES. This is NOT a Hollywood movie
A 79 year old widow found that there were some old sticks of dynamite in her home (her husband had been a chemist), She contacted the fire department, who decided some of the dynamite was too unstable to move, so they blew her house up. She had lived in the house for 51 years, and now has literally nothing left but a hole in the ground.
@@timacrow You left out some details. The EPA was involved before any fire department because a chemist had lived there and left chemicals. Then two CASES of unstable old dynamite was discovered. A bomb squad handled the controlled explosion. They did take precautions (as indicated by the homeowner in a different news article)but damage to other houses, due to proximity, wasn't completely avoidable. And the owner of the exploded house had a gofundme that was very lucrative following this event. It helped her overcome the loss.
@@liars3832 She absolutely did not die in that explosion. What an absurd thing to troll about. There is online footage of a local New station interviewing her after it occurred. She was not even present in thr home because it was a planned detonation. You need help buddy. Or better research skills.
It was either sweating dynamite or crystallized tnt from comments I've read. They didn't have much of a choice. The stuff is way too hazardous to handle. Blame the idiots that left it in their home.
Reckless endangerment, Neglect, excessive force, unnecessary collateral damage, emotional distress, damages to private property, damages to 3rd parties….. the list goes on and on.
@@musewolfman did you not watch the video and listen to the lady speak...... like at all? go ahead and re watch it and listen closely. there is now debris everywhere..... which means every yard within 5 mile has to be gone over with a metal detector to avoid a random child stepping down on a metal clatrop caused by this stupid act. it would have just been safer to saw the 4 corners of the house then bulldoze it down. but they didn't and the explosion caused "nails" to shoot so high up that the velocity coming back down was enough to go through the neighbors roof and got stock in the ceiling. that kind of velocity can cause debris to travel quite a far distance.
@@seandavis1189 the house had 35lbs of generations old dynamite that could explode any minute so they evacuated the people and blew it up if they went and bulldozed it everyone involved would be dead
I live near here. They did evacuate some families, but didn’t account for the damage to their homes. They also didn’t warn anyone not immediately next to it, so a lot of people were woken up at 3 am by a huge boom.
There were large amounts of very unstable dynamite in the house. Apparently it was it passed down from a. Grandparent? No Idea where they got it or why they had it. It’s a suburb of Salt Lake City
They didn't account for damage to the other homes?!?! How could they NOT account for the damage to the neighboring homes?!?! What a crock of crap. Smh. I would sue the city. Period.
And Stacy Mc Big Mouth I Mean (Hopyfully) The Basement Was Filled With Expired TNT They Had To Blow It Up Lmfao This Isn’t A Regular Practise The House Was A Bomb Essentially Lol!.
I can’t believe they got the permit to blow up a house in the middle of a neighborhood 🤦🏻♂️ that lady’s probably got every lawyer in the state calling her with lawsuits ready
It’s a chain of people who all approved it thinking it would make their job easier. Then after the damage is done everyone scrambles to blame everyone but themselves. They put more effort in covering their own a$$ than their actual job.
They managed this precisely how they should have. Dynamites suggested shelf life is a year. This stuff was passed down for generations and was decades old. As dynamites ages nitroglycerin leaches out and crystallizes. It is extremely unstable. Moving the stuff to discard in a different manner would have put lives at risk. Property damage sucks, but a house is not worth lives….
To be fair I wouldn’t put even the “greatest generation” on a pedestal here. This seems right up their alley if you look at the crazy dangerous and irresponsible stuff they got up to with police and demolitions and industrial accidents. We’ve lost many things the last 40 years, but people back then where extremely dumb too
ok genius you find 60 sticks of dynamite in a yard and a basement stored near other volatile chemicals from a university lab and they're 40-60 years old and way too volatile to even touch how would you handle that? how is nobody upset at the neighbor storing explosives in an urban environment for decades?
@@carrolbrooks2143 Except there's a lot more to this story in full length articles and videos. Just because you don't know the details doesn't mean others don't. It had highly unstable old dynamite in it. Sweating nitroglycerin is no joke
you're right the neighbor who kept 60 sticks of dynamite all around the house in an urban environment and it was too old to safely handle should be brought to justice and sent ti jail or worse. this explosion could have happened in a much less controlled and much more dangerous manner.
@@gotacallfromvishal With people in other houses right next to the explosion? No, glass and other debrie could've killed someone in adjacent houses. This was reckless and unprofessional.
@@phantomaugust3791ok so arrest the homeowner for illegally storing dynamite. Homeowner put the entire neighborhood at risk to the point FD had to do this
@@nicholasbrown668 Are you dense? The police / fire department should've at least evacuated the people from their houses before they caused the explosion. And do not say their was no time to do so, there was plenty.
What happened to a good old fashioned bulldozer??? Crazy, they should be liable to rebuild them new homes. Now the structural integrity of those homes has been compromised.
The house had like 80 year old dynamite in it and somehow the government heard about it and they decided that ancient dynamite was too dangerous to move.
@@officialcafemojo The woman who lived there called authorities when she found a mercury spill in the basement. Her deceased husband was a chemist and she didn't know what to do with all the chemicals he'd stored. Then they found the aged dynamite and had to detonate it because it was too unsafe to remove.
@officialcafemojo The homeowner called for help because of mercury release. The FR then found all sorts of other chemicals. The woman's husband had been a chemist and did home experiments. Not sure what the solution was. Not even sure if the other chemicals were removed.
The REAL proof that the first responders in Utah are complete IDIOTS is that according to neighbors, they didn't even bother to warn or evacuate any of them except the ones directly bordering on the house. You can bet the town of Holiday, what a stupid name for a town, will go bankrupt from THOSE lawsuits!
That was my house next door. It is still an ongoing problem. We did find a new house in the same city but my kids will have to go to different schools. We lost more than half of what we owned. The blast also killed 2 snakes, a tego, a crested gecko and another lizard. My kids are happy but still really traumatized from this whole thing.
I Cannot Believe This Comment is NOT Pinned!! I'm So Sorry your Family had to Endure this. You should be Talking to a Lawyer I'm Serious, This is Such Negligence it's Pathetic! I'm Happy you have another home but kids having to go to separate schools etc Isn't Cool. . Id be looking for Compensation Y'all Didn't Deserve any of this. It's Negligence, Damages, Stress of everything. This is def a Case!!
What does it speak volumes to? I guarantee he didn't know it had hit the house next to it. All it speaks to is that guys like to watch stuff blow up. You're doing the classic foible of assigning malice to incompetence.
There was 35 lbs of crystallized dynamite in the basement of the home that the man who owned the home inherited from his father. The family had no idea. The man who owned the home passed away and his children came to clean up the house for their mother who still lived there. They found the dynamite, called the police who then called the bomb squad who determined it was unsafe to move in its condition and had to do a controlled explosion to get rid of it. I got the notification to evacuate, it was a wild night.
I mean still though are they going to fix all the damage? That could have really hurt somebody come on now😮 I just don't understand why this was even remotely an option knowing that it more than likely would do the damage that it did to these other houses. Somebody's going to have to pay for that😮
@@kevinjohnson-lf3kj Renter can also sue. Landlord sues for the damage to the house. Renter sues for the emotional trauma and cost of relocating. In fact its very possible that the landlord And renter would sue together. The renter "owns" the home while renting and damage is usually their responsibility.
@@pacobell97 Thats SWAT, not fire department and they should know the blast radius of such explosive charge, well as dangers to other property. Though i have to admit 16kg of unstable dynamite is harder to evaluate how much you want to put it to blow it up... Still that is in the basement, so maybe try to prevent explosion taking everything around with it by directing the detonation up.
@@Bella-kk4go they might come out okay because of the attention it got. hard to not pay attention to a mistake like this one. clearly they need to be compensated big time
Just see how fast the city and its minion employees will somehow try to hide behind qualified immunity and, after they perform an "internal investigation", will determine they did nothing wrong, and are not liable in any way!
Who tf thought it was a good idea to blow up a house in the middle of a residential neighborhood? The fact that they were able to do this after it probably had to be approved at multiple levels by multiple parties is insane
You are correct. People should not fill their basement with explosives. That is a bad decision. The owner not only put property at risk but everyone's lives. So yes, remember not to fill your basement with dynamite, stored next to the gasoline and oily rags. That might damage someone's property.
@@asongfromunderthefloorboards the incompetence of the fire department goes beyond that. They did nothing to prevent any damage to the surrounding houses because they claimed that it would be controlled and maintained within the footprint of the property the dynamite was on. It's negligence and incompetence.
@@epmcgee Where did the bomb squad promise that the shockwave and all debris would suddenly stop traveling when it hit the invisible barrier of the property line?
@@asongfromunderthefloorboards when they claimed it would be controlled and maintained in the footprint of the property. Demolition companies have dropped entire skyscrapers without severely damaging surrounding buildings. The secret, strategically placed chain link fences and wire mesh. Fire department and bomb squad could have done a lot more to protect from shrapnel and the blast. If that dynamite was down there long enough to sweat without exploding it could've waited as many days as they needed to adequately protect surrounding buildings.
None. Theres a case where a robber was flleeing from the cops and he ran into a ladies house so the cops drove a bobcat into her houze and destroyed the whole thing. They didnt pay for any of it and ne ither would her insurance cause there was a clause that said if the damage was caused by law enforcement thwy xouldnt help
@@aboatpro5686they didn’t really have much of a choice. They found 35lbs of unstable dynamite in the basement. Try to move that and even if you get it to a vehicle without it blowing you’re now driving through the town with a car bomb that might blow because of a pothole.
Reminds me of when the coastal community in Oregon had a dead beached whale on the shore. The "Powers that Be" decided to blow it up with demolition!!! THAT ONLY created a BIGGER MESS!!!
It reminds me of when this train crashed in New Palestine OH and the powers that be decided to light it on fire contaminating half the state and then just walked away like nothing happened. I don't see any protests for New Palestine.
Or that time in the 70's that some guys drilling for natural gas made a leaking crater and decided to light it on fire to prevent contamination of the surrounding area. They thought it would burn out in a few weeks. It's still on fire.
There was 33lbs of crystalized Dynamite found inside the home with an estimated age of 60 years. How would you have handled this situation? Would you have sent people in to collect it then driven a highly volatile explosive through a neighborhood?
Let's clarify: the TNT couldn't be moved BY THESE officials however, the tech and skills exist to remove dangerous ordinance. They just decided to detonate in place. Now they need to deal with collateral damage. The feds and the military has people who move old tnt. It can be handled carefully.
It was dynamite. Suggested shelf life is a year. Stuff had been in the home for generations. Dynamite leaches nitroglycerin with age and it crystallizes, becoming extremely unstable. They measured the risk of life, versus the risk of property damage…property damage looses every time. As it should.
@@MrToddwest The dynamite in question was at least 80 years old but they don't know how much older, the man that had owned it inherited it from his father in 1983 and according to the man's wife his father had inherited it from his father who got it from his. Literally passed down for generations. When the bomb squad that was called in identified it as dynamite they also noted that a large amount of it had crystals on the outside of it. At that point the decision was made to detonate the entire collection of explosives in the basement.
Construction worker just builds the homes. If you're looking for the people that make homes so expensive, you should be looking at the people wearing business suits.
The Dyno tech needs to be fired and pay in full for all damage done to neighboring homes. Or go to jail for 10 years. Attempted murder right there lawyers.
Dude died and his wife called the cops because of some dynamite he was storing in the basement. Turns out the dynamite was so old and volatile that the bomb squad thought it was safer to detonate than to remove.
They owe this lady and her family. She should be relocated to something comparable, reimbursed for their losses, and compensated for emotional suffering.
lol, chill. It was a rented home. They evacuated all the homes in the area, nobody was home. I’d rather see the home owner getting compensated, not their tenants.
Both should be compensated. The homeowner has to deal with a damaged property and loss of income. The tenants have to deal with the cost and disruption of having to move suddenly. They probably have to stay in a hotel until they can be resettled and trying to find a place with the same rent is difficult. Not to mention how difficult it is for a child with disabilities to have his whole routine thrown off like this. I had to evacuate due to wildfires and just those couple weeks were expensive and traumatic… the whole thing was ill conceived and I imagine some people will be losing their government jobs.
@@HumilityListensYes the city who avoided all chemical neutralization and chose to just blow up a residential home. They're liable for the homes they destroyed with the exception of tnt house.
@@voodoo45north73chemical neautralization sounds fine on paper. But with the amount of dynamite in the home crates would have to be moved in order to desensitize all of it. They weighed the risk of property damage against the risk of human life…property damage looses everytime. These are experts in their fields making these decisions, leave it to them.
@@joe4171 False. They had less than half of a 50 cal ammo can and were able to take pictures. The pictures showed it isolated in the corner. The exact same thing happened in California in 2021, and they neutralized the crystallized tnt with diesel.
We've encouraged "me first" for so long that "what about them" isn't even a second thought. That applies all across the spectrum from multi-billion dollar industries to individual people and this is the result.
Blowing up a house 20 feet from other homes that had renters still living in them is reckless and could have killed people so it is definitely their responsibility to reimburse the residents for all damages emotional and physical.
Did they have renters living in them? Or did the emergency responders, I don't know, evacuate the nearby residents? Do some basic reading, the answer will surprise you!
@@AndrewDaley-lr9qgyou really reaching, every guy likes to watch fireworks, explosions and fires and cool stuff like that and if you say you don’t then you must like playing the skin flute, I highly doubt he knew a family would be affected from it but please if you ever do anything immature in life remember your comment and you better retract and get professional real quick sir
For the people who don't have eyes or google; That's the Utah police department illegally detonating TnT found in the basement of a teacher. The local 'bomb squad' rigged it to go off, while the actual bomb squad as on route. Remember, we gotta give these guys more money, they're doing a *bang* up job.
Do you have proof that the detonation was illegal, that unqualified EOD techs were involved, or that the decision was rushed without proper consideration of options? Or are you just talking out your backside?
@@djcfrompt none of that matters when you're endangering the lives of innocent people. Not to mention they didn't even bother to evacuate the neighbors out of their homes before they detonated the bombs. So yes what they did was highly illegal and yes they do have a lawsuit coming their way just because you do something legally doesn't mean it can't turn into a lawsuit
@elitehacker1416 tell me you know nothing about law without telling me. Of course it matters - first you need proof of all your claims in your precious little lawsuit, which nobody has because you're all making things up based on mere seconds of news footage. Second, the government has sovereign immunity defenses that you have to overcome, which would include things like proving that the action was reckless and dangerous. By the way, I don't know where everyone is getting the idea that residents weren't evacuated (I expect it's because the resident's after-action damage assessment is being misinterpreted as saying she was there during the blast), but if you bothered to read the full article you'd see that the whole neighborhood was evacuated and even more residents were ordered to shelter in place while the controlled detonation took place. But apparently reading the article or watching the full video is too much to ask.
The 2 guy's in the beginning made me think they were doing it intentionally. I hope this family is doing better and have found a even nicer home. May God bless them.
They were. They justified blowing up a house because when else were they going to do that? They then framed it as if no surrounding houses would be damaged, and did nothing to limit the potential damage. 7 houses were damaged.
That surprised smile from the one guy tells me this is the first time they've ever done this outside of a controlled training scenario with half of the explosives used.
@anidiotmakesthingsBy basement full you meant less than half an ammo can, right? Why did all of you yes men forget we've been chemically neutralizing tnt since we created it?
@anidiotmakesthings The exact same situation happened in California in 2021. Bomb squad used diesel to chemically neutralize the crystallized tnt before removing it from a home. Being arrogant and wrong is hilarious to watch. Thanks for the lulz!
I think this was demoed by detination because they were afraid of instability of very old dynamite. Then they also found 25 or 30 different chemicals that were hazardous. Believe they removed chemicals and detonated dynamite because it was unstable. Sorry for loss of homes for surrounding innocents. ✌️
Fire department: This house is chock full of dangerous and explosive chemicals. Also Fire department: Lets use explosives to get rid of the highly explosive chemicals
@jack23325 well let's see I've delt with dud fireworks.... also common sense would tell me soaked tnt won't explode... but if I'm wrong I will consult people I actually know that have worked with dynamite instead of cowering to the government... but hey if you wanna be a slave to society go ahead I'll see ya in the bread lines
@jack23325 no more than you.. However I know people who have worked with this stuff before and I doubt they would blow up there house over it..... you just want government to solve all your problems watch how well that goes bud...
How ignorant is that to blow up a house right next to another house occupied by residents? I did this to my own home I would be thrown in jail, but the government once again can do whatever they want without repercussions. Brain dead fire department are only some of the people to blame
The city should be responsible for relocating and reimbursing this family.
You mean the taxpayers of that city... :(
@@Albanian_Accountant Exactly, but they back firemen and police officers without question, so they should suck it up.
@@Albanian_AccountantIf the taxpayers have to pay for fire departments to make people homeless, then they need to make up for it, by relocating and reimbursing these families
@@GremmPaltakinfiremen don't have Q.I.!
@@GremmPaltakin this doesnt qualify
Braindead fire department blowing up a residential home 20 feet from other occupied homes is so reckless and neglectful. They should all lose their jobs
I won't call the fire department anything negative However, what on earth happened to cause this and things like this????? /
😮the city will now have to pay for that if the FD was city employees. Which means it's covered by your taxes.
The house was filled with "sweating" TNT. They literally had no choice but to detonate the house. The news articles say that there was either TNT or other explosive material all over the house.
I wouldn't have felt safe living in a surrounding house knowing highly explosive material was next door and could explode at any moment.
The explosives Couldn't be moved????
@@nl8989No. Go read my comment above for detailed explanation
If the public did this, we'd be in prison.
@@71stang the public doesn’t deal with dudes finding expired dynamite in their basement. Still dumb tho
@@KyleAyres-ru6ru if there's unexploded ordnance inside of residential home than an EOD should be called not the fire department.
@@thenewplantationisinyourmind the military isn't coming to deal with this kind of stuff...
@@pugnessto start; you’re wrong
To end; you’re restarted.
No Contest.
Oooh, and it's on video too.
Lawyers are salivating with this one
The widow of the Chemist is about to lose everything.
dangfools..WHY????
The defense lawyers looking at the lack of force from the blast in the immediately surrounding trees are salivating too!
At least they were kind enough to record it for “proof of stupidity”.
End qualified Immunity!
@@edchester1773 that right there! Exactly!
@@houseofchaos9286
why do civil services feel the need to dress in military combat gear?
They are just earning the publics disrespect and h8
In court, they call that evidence! 😂
😂😂
So they had to remotely detonate from half way down the block, but didn't think a house 20 feet away with a family of 5 would be affected? This is so laughably incompetent, department needs to clean house and be charged for gross negligence.
Of course they did. Thats why the houses were vacated. Property damage sucks, but it’s better than the lives that would have been put at risk moving decades old dynamite.
@@joe4171 Decade old dynamite has been proven to just been a myth. You have to worry about dynamite that's been sitting for a year or two, but longer than that there hasn't been any documented cases of "decades old dynamite" being dangerous more than normal.
The cops just wanted to justify their gross over budget.
Perfect point& well stated
They wont be, name one time that happened w/o a viral incident
The city better be giving the home owners a check for the amount of the house they destroyed. @@joe4171
City should be on the hook for 100% of the damage!!
City gonna have buy them new home. They need attorney right away
@@billroberds9075seeing as they were renting, the city won’t have to buy them anything. But they should be 100% responsible for the family’s moving costs & anything they need to replace as well as damages to any of the homes that were damaged.
Like Police, the city will investigate themselves and have determined the city is not responsible for property damage they caused.
And by city you mean the tax payers.
more than that... Emotional damages, endangerment, time costs, all of it.
How could you not know you would damage everything around an explosion? Complete negligence
And the explosion AEROSOLIZED THOSE CHEMICALS.
A couple of years back in my area, the cops decided to destroy a bunch of illegal fireworks found in a residential neighborhood. They brought in the bomb squad and a truck built to destroy explosives.
They blew up the truck and cars park on the road. Homes had damage. You would think the lesson learned would have been passed on.
Assumably they did know but when unknown chemicals and explosions are identified you have to control the detonation period.
What is the over/under on this 1,000,000?
An approval to blow up a house at night?!
Like fireworks, that's probably what they were thinking.
The basement was full of explosives very unstable and old Dynamite
Couldn't they have slowly flooded it ?@@Cars.Through.Lenses
@@saxonsoldier67 unfortunatley dynamite doesnt stabilize in a mosit or wet environment. It actually helps the dynamite sweat or secrete nitroglycerin which is what makes the dynamite explode so thats why flooding is a no go.
@@jakephreelwho told you that lie?
I smell a beautiful lawsuit against both the city and the fire department
And the people who get paid will be taxed to pay for their own paycheck 😂
Yea also blew out my teeth flattening my breasts the oven kitchen scared the dog and cat now they are having phycology problems e c t
Yup same my breast all messed up and my dogs tail got bent and then my cat went missing I want 5 million dollars for a new breeast
Yeah, the landlord is probably in for a payday. The renters, on the other hand, probably not.
That you and I have to pay for 😂
they did NOT have to detonate that home. There are dozens or ways to neutralize the chemicals in the house. The authorities are an absolute embarrassment
Indeed. Only the government can be this brainless and heartless.
What would be your plan to neutralize the unstable dynamite?
@@handful65we used to do it all the time... there are ways
@@handful65the same reason lapd blowup a neighborhood because they can do it.
Apparently, the government didn't warn the neighbors about the unstable dynomite, to evacuate them.
@@handful65
She was honestly way more calm about it than I think the majority of people would’ve been
SHE'S THE ONLY "ADULT" IN SIGHT. BLESS HER.
She'll probably get a nice little six figure check not including the cost of rehousing. She's going to profit from this and she must know that.
The owner of the neighboring home and the tenant should do well in a lawsuit. That was reckless endangerment.
Agreed...I need to set a reminder for what...about a decade? MY bet is they are not going to be able to cover lawyer fees, sooo if they win, maybe a 20-30% cut.
Thoughts and prayers...I love religious logic...its so so so easy. I did my part.
Apparently the house that was demoed had old dynamite in the basement that had turned to nitroglycerin... and the house was vacant.... so the only way to make sure it didn't blow up on its own at a time when there were people around who could get killed, they detonated it. Yeah, neighbors losing their house sucks, it sucks even more if they die because their outside when it goes off accidentally.
They evacuated everybody
How will a lawsuit create extra homosexual rights for them ?
They're not illegal mexicans !
@@elguapo87 "they", yeah, you tend to push your ideal WAY more then you push reality? What does it for you, not believing anybody that looks like ____, or the cops are perfect?
Using an explosion to take down a building that’s one story tall in a neighborhood is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard of
Well, you haven't heard of it, because that's not what happened. Actually read the news coverage and you'll learn that the home was full of aged dynamite so old that the bomb squad couldn't remove it without risking it going off. Detonating it in place was the safest way to remove it.
@@djcfromptthank you so much for sharing your knowledge with others you don't have to be so mean about it
Not everyone has a clue as to go about how looking stuff up
@@rennapate8703 I don't mean to be rude, but not a single person in this comment section has made a shred of effort to determine what happened in this incident. This happened in my county, and I know people who work for this fire department. It makes me very angry to see their good name being drug through the mud because people online assume that they know all the facts and make no effort to type into Google something as simple as "Utah home exploded by fire department".
@@djcfrompt well then I guess this also happened in my country
I will forgive the rudeness because there's no rudeness there unless if I take it that way I understand that and my apologies there
People in this country go through stuff every single day no one is any more special than the next person
@djcfrompt so what about the displaced people like a special needs child? You're not angry about that, it seems.
As a firefighter I can’t comprehend how this could possibly ever be the solution to dealing with any situation
There was crystallized dynamite inside, and some of it was in the basement. Was about 50 years old. 49 years past its shelf life. Robots can’t go down the stares. There was nothing else for them to do other than sit back, and watch the fireworks
. if it's been there 50 years, I suppose you could just leave it be. I'm sure betting the affected neighbors think so!
@@scottpolk1698 Dynamites shelf life is 1 year. After that, it begins to crystallize. It turns back into nitroglycerin. Nitroglycerin is extremely volatile. Moving it too fast can cause it to blow up
@Dankauff my suggestion was to "not" move it. I don't know much about dynamite, and I as much joking as anything, but it had been there 50 years with no incidents
I take it you are not hazmat certified. If you were then you would be able to comprehend it.
The people in charge need to be held accountable
@@morepower3242 Jesus Christ, if you don’t know the whole story..,
Who ever signed off on the demolition needs to be responsible for everyone elses damage, that was just beyond negligence
Not only the person who signed off, but everyone involved. They had to have known how dangerous it was to the surrounding homes.
They are White,so they are on their own.
indeed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@fishanhunter Stop. Thats not the case at all. The home had unstable dynamite in the basement. There’s nothing else that could have been done. 100% not the FD fault.
Guarantee you no city officials had houses nearby or they never would’ve done it that way
Mercenaries only execute orders, they're not paid to do critical thinking!
Guarantee those officials are going to buy up the houses to rent out.
Many municipalities don't require municipal employees to reside in the city itself. There can be no sense of empathy with outsiders who are trying to run things from without the community.
i promise you, these guys didnt check
@@SirValiantIII and blast shields are a thing to
You already know the government is going to leave these people out to dry.
Historically no, the homeowner will have a multimillion dollar lawsuit and drive the town under. Happens all the time.
@@ab-cj2hdDefinitely does not "happen all the time".
@@ab-cj2hdhooey. Search qualified immunity.
I don't get why as a society we can't just agree the government covers this kind of stuff. If a government action or error results in a destruction of property it should be covered no questions asked.
@@liisahmanni eh happens pretty often just doesn't make the national news or youtube. I live in a tiny town and successful lawsuits against the city have happened several times in the last couple years... i'm just one town
I can't even believe they did that so close to other homes. How negligent ,someone could have been killed. I would definitely sue
I'm betting no one will take responsibility for the damage & these people will have to fend for themselves!!
Yes
Yep don't care.
The lady whose husband collected all the explosives will probably be held liable. That's if it's tge same house as I'm thinking of.
Like a good neighbor State Farm is there, but not really 😂
Insurance company is chewing the city and fire deptpartment a new one. It will be paid.
Fire department will likely have a new chief
I love how they stood half a block down for their own safety but didn’t think or care about the safety of the people in the neighboring houses that are feet away?
RIGHT !!!
Utah? Note to self: don't ever go to Utah.
Surely been evacuated first right? 😅
@cameronmitchell6083 they were evacuated. I am not understanding how everyone thinks they would have a bomb squad, police and fire department there and not evacuated the neighbors😂😂but people in Utah are dumb😂😂
They were evacuated. The fire department had no choice. the house was full of antique dynamite. Moving it could have caused it to explode.
The town/county should be responsible for rehoming any families affected by that idiot move.
Not really.. it was a natural disaster 😂😂😂😂
@@JuniorStarsUTD nothing natural about the negligence and incompetence of the city to limit the damage from a 'controlled' explosion that they framed as being kept within the footprint of the affected house. 7 houses were damaged due to the choice made by the fire department and their negligence in failing to limit the damage. The city should be sued.
@@JuniorStarsUTD lukewarm iq on this one...
@@JuniorStarsUTDoh yeah like those tnt storms back in 2020 😵💫👈
@@epmcgee you do dynamite removal? Like paper wrapped nitro glycerine? The kind that sweats and can be set off by friction, impact, static discharge or any kind of contact in general? Nah didnt think so. NO ONE DOES. Bomb teams DETONATE EXPLOSIVES. This is NOT a Hollywood movie
A 79 year old widow found that there were some old sticks of dynamite in her home (her husband had been a chemist), She contacted the fire department, who decided some of the dynamite was too unstable to move, so they blew her house up. She had lived in the house for 51 years, and now has literally nothing left but a hole in the ground.
@@timacrow You left out some details. The EPA was involved before any fire department because a chemist had lived there and left chemicals. Then two CASES of unstable old dynamite was discovered. A bomb squad handled the controlled explosion. They did take precautions (as indicated by the homeowner in a different news article)but damage to other houses, due to proximity, wasn't completely avoidable.
And the owner of the exploded house had a gofundme that was very lucrative following this event. It helped her overcome the loss.
@@Yes-iu3kr she died in that explosion....... wow. That's inventive and disturbing all at once.
@@liars3832 She absolutely did not die in that explosion. What an absurd thing to troll about. There is online footage of a local New station interviewing her after it occurred. She was not even present in thr home because it was a planned detonation.
You need help buddy. Or better research skills.
I was looking for an explanation in the comments. Thanks 🙏. They need to pin this comment.
Seems the estate of the chemist should be Liable for damaged.
Name the city so that people can avoid the incompetence of their city and departments.
Holladay
East side, Salt Lake valley, UT. Promise there are worse cities in regards to cop attitudes, they can be rude af depending...
@@mikeyrichards7812I thought she said Holiday. I was like, why are they blowing up a vacation home
Incompetents.
Honest to God.
It was either sweating dynamite or crystallized tnt from comments I've read. They didn't have much of a choice. The stuff is way too hazardous to handle. Blame the idiots that left it in their home.
Reckless endangerment, Neglect, excessive force, unnecessary collateral damage, emotional distress, damages to private property, damages to 3rd parties….. the list goes on and on.
The whole neighborhood was evacuated, where does the reckless endangerment come in?
@@musewolfman did you not watch the video and listen to the lady speak...... like at all? go ahead and re watch it and listen closely. there is now debris everywhere..... which means every yard within 5 mile has to be gone over with a metal detector to avoid a random child stepping down on a metal clatrop caused by this stupid act. it would have just been safer to saw the 4 corners of the house then bulldoze it down. but they didn't and the explosion caused "nails" to shoot so high up that the velocity coming back down was enough to go through the neighbors roof and got stock in the ceiling. that kind of velocity can cause debris to travel quite a far distance.
@@seandavis1189 the house had 35lbs of generations old dynamite that could explode any minute so they evacuated the people and blew it up if they went and bulldozed it everyone involved would be dead
I live near here. They did evacuate some families, but didn’t account for the damage to their homes. They also didn’t warn anyone not immediately next to it, so a lot of people were woken up at 3 am by a huge boom.
Why did they blew it up?
What city is it?
There were large amounts of very unstable dynamite in the house. Apparently it was it passed down from a. Grandparent? No Idea where they got it or why they had it. It’s a suburb of Salt Lake City
Why would they do this in the middle of the night something crooked about this s***
They didn't account for damage to the other homes?!?! How could they NOT account for the damage to the neighboring homes?!?! What a crock of crap. Smh. I would sue the city. Period.
The fact that they smile and pat each other on the back for this too
Hate that smirk on that guy blowing up. No concern for the neighbors.
Firefighters have huge egos. Stop telling them they are hero’s for at least a generation and maybe they’ll come back to earth.
Neighbors weren’t even there
@@hopefully2224 but some of them are. Not these guys, but some.
And Stacy Mc Big Mouth I Mean (Hopyfully) The Basement Was Filled With Expired TNT They Had To Blow It Up Lmfao This Isn’t A Regular Practise The House Was A Bomb Essentially Lol!.
@hopefully2224 its you sweetheart. Not him
I can’t believe they got the permit to blow up a house in the middle of a neighborhood 🤦🏻♂️ that lady’s probably got every lawyer in the state calling her with lawsuits ready
It’s a chain of people who all approved it thinking it would make their job easier. Then after the damage is done everyone scrambles to blame everyone but themselves. They put more effort in covering their own a$$ than their actual job.
They managed this precisely how they should have. Dynamites suggested shelf life is a year. This stuff was passed down for generations and was decades old. As dynamites ages nitroglycerin leaches out and crystallizes. It is extremely unstable. Moving the stuff to discard in a different manner would have put lives at risk.
Property damage sucks, but a house is not worth lives….
@@joe4171so your saying the house was rigged before for years? Or they used old dinamite? Either way none of this was done properly, just cheap.
@user-vj3gl9qx7k there was a bunch of old dynamite stored in the house
@@beez7753you can easily make dynamite inert with chemicals. Even diesel fuel can be used.
I have watched the dumbing down of this country for 40 years. This is where we are!
Right.😮
2X right!😮
Thoughts and prayers...Im covered.
It's amazing isn't it🤦♀️
To be fair I wouldn’t put even the “greatest generation” on a pedestal here. This seems right up their alley if you look at the crazy dangerous and irresponsible stuff they got up to with police and demolitions and industrial accidents. We’ve lost many things the last 40 years, but people back then where extremely dumb too
Why the police so far away with a remote ?
Let them stand 20 feet away like their neighbors
Let them pay for everything, and lose their jobs, and EXPLAIN!!!!
The audacity of these people to destroy multiple homes. Smdh
ok genius you find 60 sticks of dynamite in a yard and a basement stored near other volatile chemicals from a university lab and they're 40-60 years old and way too volatile to even touch how would you handle that? how is nobody upset at the neighbor storing explosives in an urban environment for decades?
The audacity to make a comment without knowing what actually happened
@@Eggcornbean That Is Exactly What Every Single Person On Here Is Doing, Including You And Me!?!!
You really think homes today are built to last?
@@carrolbrooks2143 Except there's a lot more to this story in full length articles and videos. Just because you don't know the details doesn't mean others don't. It had highly unstable old dynamite in it. Sweating nitroglycerin is no joke
Everyone involved in that violation of basic safety and common sense should be put in jail or worse
you're right the neighbor who kept 60 sticks of dynamite all around the house in an urban environment and it was too old to safely handle should be brought to justice and sent ti jail or worse. this explosion could have happened in a much less controlled and much more dangerous manner.
@@gotacallfromvishal With people in other houses right next to the explosion? No, glass and other debrie could've killed someone in adjacent houses. This was reckless and unprofessional.
@@phantomaugust3791ok so arrest the homeowner for illegally storing dynamite. Homeowner put the entire neighborhood at risk to the point FD had to do this
@@nicholasbrown668 Are you dense? The police / fire department should've at least evacuated the people from their houses before they caused the explosion. And do not say their was no time to do so, there was plenty.
@@phantomaugust3791 they did evacuate everyone within 1500 ft. You should look up the story
Welp another lawsuit us tax payers have to foot the bill for ....who TF approved this BS
With everything going on, kinda makes you not wanna work anymore, lol. We get robbed daily by the government.
@@Zombiecamo prob the people gonna make mula off it
She just went from a renter to an owner. May God bless her kids.
This a perfect example of just because you can doesn't mean that you should!!!
What would you have done with a bunker basement full of 40 year old unstable Dynamite that could explode at any moment
It’s insane that anyone is allowed to do that with no plan for the families nearby! Whoever created this problem needs to fix it! I would he suing!
Well considering the house full of unstable dynamite was abandoned, good luck holding the person responsible accountable
That cops expression after the explosion says it all
@@aragorn4370 expression is a form of emotions to include stress. A person can smile as a form of coping mechanism or to show approval.
@@Kattakam he thought it was cool
Oops my bad - the only explaination they got
The company that blew out the house should be held responsible for their actions
What happened to a good old fashioned bulldozer??? Crazy, they should be liable to rebuild them new homes. Now the structural integrity of those homes has been compromised.
The house had like 80 year old dynamite in it and somehow the government heard about it and they decided that ancient dynamite was too dangerous to move.
@@officialcafemojo The woman who lived there called authorities when she found a mercury spill in the basement. Her deceased husband was a chemist and she didn't know what to do with all the chemicals he'd stored. Then they found the aged dynamite and had to detonate it because it was too unsafe to remove.
@@m0L3ifythank you for actually giving the correct advice.😊
@officialcafemojo The homeowner called for help because of mercury release. The FR then found all sorts of other chemicals. The woman's husband had been a chemist and did home experiments. Not sure what the solution was. Not even sure if the other chemicals were removed.
The REAL proof that the first responders in Utah are complete IDIOTS is that according to neighbors, they didn't even bother to warn or evacuate any of them except the ones directly bordering on the house. You can bet the town of Holiday, what a stupid name for a town, will go bankrupt from THOSE lawsuits!
The city didn't take precautions for surrounding homes
What could they possibly do?
@@jamesgebhard5448 uh, not explode things next to people's homes?
A temporary wall could have been installed that would've directed the blast wave upward instead of into neighboring houses.
@@seemsmad3789 lol
@@GavriloPewPew There is no safe way to remove crystallized explosives from a home.
That was my house next door. It is still an ongoing problem. We did find a new house in the same city but my kids will have to go to different schools. We lost more than half of what we owned. The blast also killed 2 snakes, a tego, a crested gecko and another lizard. My kids are happy but still really traumatized from this whole thing.
@@ume11113 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
I Cannot Believe This Comment is NOT Pinned!! I'm So Sorry your Family had to Endure this. You should be Talking to a Lawyer I'm Serious, This is Such Negligence it's Pathetic! I'm Happy you have another home but kids having to go to separate schools etc Isn't Cool. . Id be looking for Compensation Y'all Didn't Deserve any of this. It's Negligence, Damages, Stress of everything. This is def a Case!!
Not Sure Why when I leave a Comment it doesn't Stay, Weird Id assume you'd have Way more Comments n it be PINNED FFS
Get a great attorney, you don't need to pay up front!
@ume11113 Where was this? I take it you are renters? When did this happen?
We need a great lawyer to tell us who is responsible for all the damages that happened next.
The smirk on that dude's face says all you need to know about where their concerns were.
i thought that too.. but.. they might not have known the extent of the damage or what they did, from that angle
That smirk from the guy after the detonation speaks volumes!
I saw that too.
How disgusting
Exactly
What does it speak volumes to? I guarantee he didn't know it had hit the house next to it. All it speaks to is that guys like to watch stuff blow up.
You're doing the classic foible of assigning malice to incompetence.
Bro are you high
There was 35 lbs of crystallized dynamite in the basement of the home that the man who owned the home inherited from his father. The family had no idea. The man who owned the home passed away and his children came to clean up the house for their mother who still lived there. They found the dynamite, called the police who then called the bomb squad who determined it was unsafe to move in its condition and had to do a controlled explosion to get rid of it. I got the notification to evacuate, it was a wild night.
I hope they gave you a day or two to remove your most prized possessions first.
thank you for providing this info
so much for controlled.
definitely not a controlled demo.
I mean still though are they going to fix all the damage? That could have really hurt somebody come on now😮 I just don't understand why this was even remotely an option knowing that it more than likely would do the damage that it did to these other houses. Somebody's going to have to pay for that😮
What the heck was the city thinking...the personnel who detonated the explosion were totally incompetent and the city needs to provide compensation!!!
Sue! I’d absolutely sue them! Don’t think for one second that YOU wouldn’t owe something if you did this!
She is a Renter.. The Landlord or owner would sue..not the renters
@@kevinjohnson-lf3kj Renter can also sue.
Landlord sues for the damage to the house. Renter sues for the emotional trauma and cost of relocating.
In fact its very possible that the landlord And renter would sue together. The renter "owns" the home while renting and damage is usually their responsibility.
Even then, it would still be taxpayer money. The cops would learn nothing.
@@kevinjohnson-lf3kj no sh!t
@@Peaches-i2iit's fire fighters from what I heard.
This is why you don’t let local ding dongs play navy seal.
...or, in this case, "Navy Seabee Minuses."
3 year old kid: "I don't think that's safe"
Fire department: "Shut up, we're professionals"
That didnt look like the fire dept to me.
Amd the fire dept is correct. All these keyboard warriors who thinks they know better is funny.
@@pacobell97 Thats SWAT, not fire department and they should know the blast radius of such explosive charge, well as dangers to other property.
Though i have to admit 16kg of unstable dynamite is harder to evaluate how much you want to put it to blow it up... Still that is in the basement, so maybe try to prevent explosion taking everything around with it by directing the detonation up.
Oh please. A 3 year old would be screaming "Do it!" and then go crying to mom when the blast wave hits him.
This is incredibly mindless and irresponsible. Who tf let this happen?
The chemist who lived there was hoarding dynamite.
that first guy held back a smile
fr like what is wrong with them?! and one of the kids has special needs, that must have been beyond terrifying for him
@@Bella-kk4go they might come out okay because of the attention it got. hard to not pay attention to a mistake like this one. clearly they need to be compensated big time
most common job for a pyromaniac is a firefighter so it makes sense
Reckless! Public safety violation
The neighborhood was evacuated before the explosion it was just property damage
The house that was blown up had a bunker style basement that contained unstable 40 year old Dynamite
Who is the GENIUS who thought it was a GOOD idea to BLOW up a house in an RESIDENTIAL area ??
ask the govt about the 1985 MOVE bombing. This isn't anything new, they literally don't care.
government workers who else.
The government.
There was crystallized Dynamite that was extremely unstable. No way to move it and anything could set it off.
@@can-i-go-now Thanks. I knew there was more to the story.
The city needs to be responsible for the damage to neighboring homes, who signed off for the explosion of a house in a residential area 🙄
@@debracox3020 Nope. Home owner with unstable dynamite in the basement is to blame.
Just see how fast the city and its minion employees will somehow try to hide behind qualified immunity and, after they perform an "internal investigation", will determine they did nothing wrong, and are not liable in any way!
Sounds about right they always do it until you hire an attorney and sue it’s gonna cost money to make money
If they did an investigation, they'd have a lot more facts that you, who appear not to have even bothered to find out the story here.
The city literally pressed the button, so it's going to be tuff for them to claim they're not responsible.
Reckless and Dangerous! That city has to be responsible for all damages!
We had an incident where 100 cardboard tubes were found and the State Police blew them up as 'dangerous devices'. No bonfire or soapy water bucket...
Who tf thought it was a good idea to blow up a house in the middle of a residential neighborhood? The fact that they were able to do this after it probably had to be approved at multiple levels by multiple parties is insane
That’s not fair to this family they shouldn’t be left homeless because of someone else’s doings
It's the government, what do you expect?
You are correct. People should not fill their basement with explosives. That is a bad decision. The owner not only put property at risk but everyone's lives.
So yes, remember not to fill your basement with dynamite, stored next to the gasoline and oily rags. That might damage someone's property.
@@asongfromunderthefloorboards the incompetence of the fire department goes beyond that. They did nothing to prevent any damage to the surrounding houses because they claimed that it would be controlled and maintained within the footprint of the property the dynamite was on. It's negligence and incompetence.
@@epmcgee Where did the bomb squad promise that the shockwave and all debris would suddenly stop traveling when it hit the invisible barrier of the property line?
@@asongfromunderthefloorboards when they claimed it would be controlled and maintained in the footprint of the property.
Demolition companies have dropped entire skyscrapers without severely damaging surrounding buildings.
The secret, strategically placed chain link fences and wire mesh.
Fire department and bomb squad could have done a lot more to protect from shrapnel and the blast.
If that dynamite was down there long enough to sweat without exploding it could've waited as many days as they needed to adequately protect surrounding buildings.
And how many of the innocent people will get help with the repairs!?!?!
NONE, Unfortunately
None. Theres a case where a robber was flleeing from the cops and he ran into a ladies house so the cops drove a bobcat into her houze and destroyed the whole thing. They didnt pay for any of it and ne ither would her insurance cause there was a clause that said if the damage was caused by law enforcement thwy xouldnt help
The incompetence of these leaders. They should pay the damages themselves.
It would help to remember not to do it again.
@@aboatpro5686they didn’t really have much of a choice. They found 35lbs of unstable dynamite in the basement. Try to move that and even if you get it to a vehicle without it blowing you’re now driving through the town with a car bomb that might blow because of a pothole.
None they will claim qualify immunity
No DYNAMITE CLAUSE in my Insurance policy 😂
Need to sue the city
Gov actions are excluded in all policies. So that would be the part that would get ya.
@@Pax-vobiscum Will they even be VOTED OUT?
Why would they even blow it up with homes that close to it… the city needs to step in for these people
Reminds me of when the coastal community in Oregon had a dead beached whale on the shore. The "Powers that Be" decided to blow it up with demolition!!! THAT ONLY created a BIGGER MESS!!!
It reminds me of when this train crashed in New Palestine OH and the powers that be decided to light it on fire contaminating half the state and then just walked away like nothing happened. I don't see any protests for New Palestine.
Or that time in the 70's that some guys drilling for natural gas made a leaking crater and decided to light it on fire to prevent contamination of the surrounding area. They thought it would burn out in a few weeks. It's still on fire.
Look up Coal City, Illinois. A little coal dust in the air and all of a sudden railroad cars are flying across town into peoples’ homes.
There was 33lbs of crystalized Dynamite found inside the home with an estimated age of 60 years. How would you have handled this situation? Would you have sent people in to collect it then driven a highly volatile explosive through a neighborhood?
In Russia. I saw that on YT yesterday. It's massive. @@WanderingKat
Let's clarify: the TNT couldn't be moved BY THESE officials however, the tech and skills exist to remove dangerous ordinance. They just decided to detonate in place. Now they need to deal with collateral damage. The feds and the military has people who move old tnt. It can be handled carefully.
It was dynamite. Suggested shelf life is a year. Stuff had been in the home for generations. Dynamite leaches nitroglycerin with age and it crystallizes, becoming extremely unstable. They measured the risk of life, versus the risk of property damage…property damage looses every time. As it should.
@@joe4171yeahhhhhh except MuniRem exists. This was completely unnecessary on all counts.
Unless it was from the 1800’s it would not be “Leaching nitroglycerin “. Ask me how I know.
@@MrToddwest The dynamite in question was at least 80 years old but they don't know how much older, the man that had owned it inherited it from his father in 1983 and according to the man's wife his father had inherited it from his father who got it from his. Literally passed down for generations. When the bomb squad that was called in identified it as dynamite they also noted that a large amount of it had crystals on the outside of it. At that point the decision was made to detonate the entire collection of explosives in the basement.
@@MrToddwest It was from the 1800's. Ask me how I know.
Construction worker: your new home will be 425k$
Me: *only has 424k$*
Comstruction worker:
“No can doosville baby doll”
Construction worker just builds the homes. If you're looking for the people that make homes so expensive, you should be looking at the people wearing business suits.
The Dyno tech needs to be fired and pay in full for all damage done to neighboring homes. Or go to jail for 10 years. Attempted murder right there lawyers.
If this is a real news station posting, please include more context in your videos. I legitimately cannot tell anything coherent about this story
Maybe read the description?
Maybe watch the news cast instead of a “short” video
Dude died and his wife called the cops because of some dynamite he was storing in the basement. Turns out the dynamite was so old and volatile that the bomb squad thought it was safer to detonate than to remove.
@@camronchacon7259 thank you for that.
Lazy
They owe this lady and her family. She should be relocated to something comparable, reimbursed for their losses, and compensated for emotional suffering.
lol, chill. It was a rented home. They evacuated all the homes in the area, nobody was home. I’d rather see the home owner getting compensated, not their tenants.
The homeowner didn't loos
There personal things the renters did.
Both should be compensated. The homeowner has to deal with a damaged property and loss of income. The tenants have to deal with the cost and disruption of having to move suddenly. They probably have to stay in a hotel until they can be resettled and trying to find a place with the same rent is difficult. Not to mention how difficult it is for a child with disabilities to have his whole routine thrown off like this. I had to evacuate due to wildfires and just those couple weeks were expensive and traumatic… the whole thing was ill conceived and I imagine some people will be losing their government jobs.
I cant believe they blew up her family's house. What idiots!
No, it was a house basically next to the one they were renting
The city should replace any item damaged and relocate this family at the city's expense!!! This is absurd!!!! 😢😢😢
Sad thing is the city isn't responsible for fixing these peoples homes.
What a embarrassing situation for the city that was 100% reckless
Yeah the city was reckless not the citizen with dozens of chemicals and unstable dynamite in the basement😂😂😂
@@HumilityListens thats wreckers on his part as well
@@HumilityListensYes the city who avoided all chemical neutralization and chose to just blow up a residential home. They're liable for the homes they destroyed with the exception of tnt house.
@@voodoo45north73chemical neautralization sounds fine on paper. But with the amount of dynamite in the home crates would have to be moved in order to desensitize all of it. They weighed the risk of property damage against the risk of human life…property damage looses everytime. These are experts in their fields making these decisions, leave it to them.
@@joe4171 False. They had less than half of a 50 cal ammo can and were able to take pictures. The pictures showed it isolated in the corner. The exact same thing happened in California in 2021, and they neutralized the crystallized tnt with diesel.
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help" The scariest words in the English language
I feel like I've heard this saying before 🤔
reckless endangerment, all I see and hear is a lawsuit
The city employees should pay for the damages personally! Why should taxpayers be responsible for ignorance of individuals?
The deterioration of this country is incredible 👏
BUILD 👏 BACK 👏 BETTER 👏l😂😂😂😂😂😂
We've encouraged "me first" for so long that "what about them" isn't even a second thought.
That applies all across the spectrum from multi-billion dollar industries to individual people and this is the result.
The deterioration of your brain cells from being chronically online is incredible 👏
@@foodforthought85 why aren't you building back better
It’s explosive… thats for sure
Incompetence is the new normal
Whatever agency pushed that button needs to ensure the surrounding families find accommodations
Not their responsibility.
@@karenflynn6589In what world is it not? they blew up a house next to people's homes.
They need to rebuild the home of the one they blew up and repair all of the other damage to neighbors.
That'd be the just thing to do. But we all know they won't. It's not right. But it's reality.
why? it's not their expertise.
I can't believe they didn't do anything to protect the surrounding houses.
Get a attorney and sue
Did they really have to use explosives just for that?!
There were explosives (unstable nitroglycerin) already inside
Blowing up a house 20 feet from other homes that had renters still living in them is reckless and could have killed people so it is definitely their responsibility to reimburse the residents for all damages emotional and physical.
Did they have renters living in them? Or did the emergency responders, I don't know, evacuate the nearby residents? Do some basic reading, the answer will surprise you!
WHAT??? Who approved this dangerous explosion? Somebody is getting sued! Unfortunately, the taxpayers will pay for the judgment.
How could they just blow that house up. That is beyond ridiculous. And that shouldn’t be legal at all.
Dude is 50 pounds over weight wearing kevlar on the sidewalk next to his twin.Thats a giant red flag.
A child that's never grown up his grin says it all
@@AndrewDaley-lr9qgyou really reaching, every guy likes to watch fireworks, explosions and fires and cool stuff like that and if you say you don’t then you must like playing the skin flute, I highly doubt he knew a family would be affected from it but please if you ever do anything immature in life remember your comment and you better retract and get professional real quick sir
@@alexsmith1531how could he not know that a blast that size wouldn't take out the neighbors house 20' away???? Did he lie on the application?
@@alexsmith1531 Masculinity =/= stupidity.
For the people who don't have eyes or google; That's the Utah police department illegally detonating TnT found in the basement of a teacher. The local 'bomb squad' rigged it to go off, while the actual bomb squad as on route.
Remember, we gotta give these guys more money, they're doing a *bang* up job.
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Do you have proof that the detonation was illegal, that unqualified EOD techs were involved, or that the decision was rushed without proper consideration of options? Or are you just talking out your backside?
@@djcfrompt none of that matters when you're endangering the lives of innocent people. Not to mention they didn't even bother to evacuate the neighbors out of their homes before they detonated the bombs. So yes what they did was highly illegal and yes they do have a lawsuit coming their way just because you do something legally doesn't mean it can't turn into a lawsuit
@elitehacker1416 tell me you know nothing about law without telling me.
Of course it matters - first you need proof of all your claims in your precious little lawsuit, which nobody has because you're all making things up based on mere seconds of news footage. Second, the government has sovereign immunity defenses that you have to overcome, which would include things like proving that the action was reckless and dangerous.
By the way, I don't know where everyone is getting the idea that residents weren't evacuated (I expect it's because the resident's after-action damage assessment is being misinterpreted as saying she was there during the blast), but if you bothered to read the full article you'd see that the whole neighborhood was evacuated and even more residents were ordered to shelter in place while the controlled detonation took place. But apparently reading the article or watching the full video is too much to ask.
@@djcfrompt What's your favorite flavor of boot polish?
It is a blessing no one was seriously hurt or killed from this. It could have been really tragic.
The 2 guy's in the beginning made me think they were doing it intentionally. I hope this family is doing better and have found a even nicer home. May God bless them.
The bomb squad did detonate the explosives intentionally.
You never know what your neighbor is hiding in their basement.
@@asongfromunderthefloorboards Ohhh 😳
Um,,, WHAT??? IT WASNT THEM SAYING WITH A PUSH!OF!A!!BUTTTON!!!!!???? SEEK HELP BEFORE YOUR INCOMPETENCE HURTS SOMEONE!!!
@@christiangraces3732 such a mean person.. How bout you seek God for that, God don't like ugly!!! I'll pray for you.
They were. They justified blowing up a house because when else were they going to do that? They then framed it as if no surrounding houses would be damaged, and did nothing to limit the potential damage. 7 houses were damaged.
That surprised smile from the one guy tells me this is the first time they've ever done this outside of a controlled training scenario with half of the explosives used.
@anidiotmakesthingsBy basement full you meant less than half an ammo can, right? Why did all of you yes men forget we've been chemically neutralizing tnt since we created it?
@anidiotmakesthings Way to not prove me wrong while simultaneously proving that you don't know what tf you're talking about. Well played!
@anidiotmakesthings The exact same situation happened in California in 2021. Bomb squad used diesel to chemically neutralize the crystallized tnt before removing it from a home. Being arrogant and wrong is hilarious to watch. Thanks for the lulz!
I think this was demoed by detination because they were afraid of instability of very old dynamite. Then they also found 25 or 30 different chemicals that were hazardous. Believe they removed chemicals and detonated dynamite because it was unstable.
Sorry for loss of homes for surrounding innocents. ✌️
It can be stabilized though. Just takes a specialist for that vs DETONATING 33lbs of explosives in a residential house.
This is not negligence and incompetence, this is evil.
People in the Comments: I would just move those explosives and it would be fine.
Wile E. Coyote: That’s not gonna work.
Moves old dynamite 1 inch
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So much for public safety. I hope that the family is fully compensated.
yeah the family that was dumb enough to store dynamite should honestly be sued for everything they own
Fire department: This house is chock full of dangerous and explosive chemicals.
Also Fire department: Lets use explosives to get rid of the highly explosive chemicals
Was it the fire dept that set off dynamite? Or was it a company that does demolition?
It was the bomb squad. They are trained on explosives and know about old TNT.
Sue the city.
Gross negligence. This city must pay.❤
Who thought this would be a good idea?
People who know what they’re doing.
@@frisco61obviously not
@@db11750 Right, you're probably much more qualified to handle a home packed with old unstable explosives, right? You clearly know better.
@jack23325 well let's see I've delt with dud fireworks.... also common sense would tell me soaked tnt won't explode... but if I'm wrong I will consult people I actually know that have worked with dynamite instead of cowering to the government... but hey if you wanna be a slave to society go ahead I'll see ya in the bread lines
@jack23325 no more than you..
However I know people who have worked with this stuff before and I doubt they would blow up there house over it..... you just want government to solve all your problems watch how well that goes bud...
How ignorant is that to blow up a house right next to another house occupied by residents? I did this to my own home I would be thrown in jail, but the government once again can do whatever they want without repercussions. Brain dead fire department are only some of the people to blame
Sorry, why was it necessary to blow up a house?!?!