God damn.
That -blam!-ing shit was huge
But then again fertilizer plants deals with nitrides, nitrites, and nitrates good possibility they're accidents.
Wait, at the end it cut off at "Probably" after his son was saying he couldn't hear...
Was he about to try to verbally explain to his child why he is temporarily [i]deaf?[/i]
Why would you get that close to a burning fertilizer plant, especially with your kid! Ammonium nitrate is the stuff that was used in the Oklahoma City bombing, you don't want to be close to a large amount on fire. This guys an idiot, and very lucky.
The Murrah Building bomb had much more than ammonium nitrate in the back of that Uhaul truck. Even so, by itself it's still a very dangerous substance given the right conditions.
To be honest, I don't think most people would have expected raw materials could make an explosion of that size. I wouldn't have thought it would have unless it was specifically made to be a bomb. Not everone has a strong background in chem.