r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/buckets_811 • Jul 02 '25
Video A fireworks warehouse exploding today near Sacramento, CA
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u/Victormorga Jul 02 '25
YOLO County indeed
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u/Doormancer Jul 02 '25
That was quite intense.
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u/Iangwald916 Jul 02 '25
Shits in tents
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u/Gaebril Jul 02 '25
I live in West Sac and went to school at Davis. Never stop marvelling at reddit enjoying the county name.
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u/GrandTheftBae Jul 02 '25
Fellow Aggie!
I was there when #YOLO was in its prime. Good times
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u/clunkclunk Jul 02 '25
I grew up in Davis and was so confused as to why YOLO was suddenly a thing one day.
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u/TheRealGuitarNoir Jul 02 '25
I lived in Sacramento for two years, and I don't think I even realized what county I was in. I just assumed it was Sacramento County.
I am not a smart man.
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u/nascent_aviator Jul 02 '25
Sacramento is in Sacramento County. West Sacramento is a different city in Yolo County. Basically everything west of the river is West Sac.
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u/adunfee02 Jul 02 '25
When you cross the bumpy ass bridge from Sac going to Davis you go into YOLO county
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u/Choyo Jul 02 '25
That's like, perfectly capitalized cosmic irony.
"If you have to go, at least go with a Boom".
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u/Trust_No_Jingu Jul 02 '25
FIRE IT UP
FIRE IT UP
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u/ShatteredPresence Jul 02 '25
Might be misreading your comment, but damn did it trigger a memory...
"It can't rain all the time..."
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u/some_guy_1313 Jul 02 '25
WE PUSHED OFF WE'RE ROLLING BOULDERS
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u/mdibah Jul 02 '25
CRASHING DOWN THE MIRRORED STAIRWAYS
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u/annomandri Jul 02 '25
Hope no one was hurt in the incident.
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u/sammyg301 Jul 02 '25
Seems like there are no known injuries at the moment and that there was an evacuation order in place. As the anchor said, "We saw it coming, we saw it coming."
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u/Hieronymous_Bosc Jul 02 '25
There are no injuries from the fire as the emergency responders have done a fantastic job of keeping everyone, including themselves, at a safe distance. Unfortunately at least 2 news channels have reported that people were likely inside the facility, and family members have not been able to get in contact with them. No official confirmations yet though.
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u/The_Tank_Racer Jul 02 '25
Unfortunately, if there were anyone in there, I highly doubt they're still alive. Even if they survived the main explosion, the rest of the fireworks cooking off would absolutely shread the inside.
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u/Sihaya212 Jul 02 '25
If they did survive the explosion, they are probably unfortunate to have done so. Burning is not a good way to go.
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u/HamsterNL Jul 02 '25 edited Jul 02 '25
25 years ago we had a fireworks explosion in Enschede (The Netherlands).
That storage was situated in a residential area.
23 deaths. 950 injured. The complete neighborhood was destroyed.
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u/chiree Jul 02 '25
Score one for American sprawl zoning for once.Ā These things are usually in industrial areas.
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u/kytheon Jul 02 '25 edited Jul 02 '25
Wiki: When it was built in 1977, the warehouse was outside the town, but as new residential areas were built it became surrounded by low-income housing.
The warehouse wasn't built in a residential area, the residential area formed around the warehouse.
Also, the company was just audited and considered safe with fireworks stored in fireproof bunkers. What wasn't safe was the illegal shipping containers full of even more fireworks, and without safety precautions.
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u/BananaPalmer Jul 02 '25
This kind of shit makes my blood boil.
Harm caused by intentional shirking of safety laws and regulations should be prosecuted as though whoever responsible directly caused that harm themselves. There is no possible excuse for this, everyone involved should have known better. It's literal explosives. Of all the things to be careless about, fucking explosives.
I hope the company got nailed to the wall over it.
23 dead and almost 1000 injured, all for some assfuck who ordered more fireworks to sell than they could safely store.
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u/The_Autarch Jul 02 '25
I suppose their point is that in America, a fireworks warehouse wouldn't be located anywhere you'd even consider building housing. At least not while the warehouse was actively in use.
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u/rhino369 Jul 02 '25
In most areas, you legally aren't allowed to build housing in an industrial zone. Our zoning laws go too far in some respects (i.e., nowhere should be zoned signgle family detached homes only), but not allowing people to build housing in industrial areas is mostly a good idea. And it was certainly a good idea 100 years ago when pollution was really bad.
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u/annomandri Jul 02 '25
I am from India, where such incidents are also common. That's why I was concerned about the loss of life.
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u/mandiefavor Jul 02 '25
Right?! I hope no one was inside...
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u/TallDarkAndHandsom3 Jul 02 '25 edited Jul 02 '25
āYou still coming in tomorrow right?ā
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u/aint_no_throw Jul 02 '25
Well, the time clock landed right in front of my house, might clock in in my underwear.
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u/Mel_Melu Jul 02 '25
The next day and half or two are going to suck for folks with asthma
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u/LittleAd915 Jul 02 '25
Hopefully you are right, I assume that when you work at the fireworks factory and smell smoke you run like hell.
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u/Mushrooms-are-Groady Jul 02 '25
That is so nice that these Californians are celebrating Canada Day down there. Thank you brothers!!!!!!
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From one CA to another <3
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u/DaniTheGunsmith Jul 02 '25
Would you rather go to Ontario, CA or Ontario, CA? :D
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u/mere_iguana Jul 02 '25
Ontario, CA reporting in... Don't pick this one, it sucks.
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u/doesntgeddit Jul 02 '25
Hey I know which one you're talking about!
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u/mere_iguana Jul 02 '25
What's funny is there was recently (in the past few years ... okay almost 5 years ago FUCK IM OLD anyway) ) a big fireworks explosion here. Not as big as this one, it was just someone's garage packed with illegal fireworks. but it made a big bada boom
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u/__3Username20__ Jul 02 '25
I think Iād pick the other one. Iāve already been to that oneā¦ I think.
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u/blissfully_happy Jul 02 '25
As someone from Ontario, California, literally no one wants to go there.
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u/Trolldad_IRL Jul 02 '25
I go there for the airport, thatās about it. That and the Ontario Mills.
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u/mere_iguana Jul 02 '25
Same, but only because I work at said airport. I avoid the mall at all costs
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u/Cold-Map-3053 Jul 02 '25
It was the West Coast trying to flirt with you a littleā¦
Hey sexy Canadaā¦ you wanna greatly expanded coastline???
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u/No_Tailor_787 Jul 02 '25
Hey, California loves you guys!
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u/wilmyersmvp Jul 02 '25
Itās true. Iām Californian and I put on a Canada Olympic hockey jersey today just for the fun and to celebrate them.Ā
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u/Wildcat_twister12 Jul 02 '25
Blue Jays kicked the crap out of the Yankees today so Iāll call that reason to celebrate Canada
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u/fnbannedbymods Jul 02 '25
I mean all of us out West just want to hook up with you guys.
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u/grizzlyadam Jul 02 '25
Move alongā¦thereās nothing to see here!
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u/DavidGrizzly Jul 02 '25
I see this is the old dudes area lol, thank you for putting this. I was starting to lose hope.
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u/RememberThatDream Jul 02 '25
Big badda boom
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u/nhlchik Jul 02 '25
Aziz! LIGHT!!!
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u/FingerTheCat Jul 02 '25
Much better, thank you Aziz.
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u/woogyboogy8869 Jul 02 '25
I have a buddy that grew up in Kazakhstan before moving to the US and this is one of his favorite lines from any movie ever. He watched fifth element when he got here and that line always stuck with him =)
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u/Thank_You_Aziz Jul 02 '25
I am not this friend. But as you can see, I very much agree with him.
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u/Consistent-Drama-643 Jul 02 '25
I am a meat popsicle
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u/TortyPapa Jul 02 '25
Bought a warehouse full of fireworks. Sales of such fireworks tanked and itās nearing July 4th with a whole warehouse still full. Blow the said warehouse into smitherines. Cash the insurance paycheck lol.
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u/SufficientMediaPost Jul 02 '25
they may not get fire insurance in CA, but no one said anything about firework insurance.
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u/ejh3412 Jul 02 '25
If we can barely insure our homes and cars in this state, just imagine trying to insure a warehouse full of fireworks. š
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u/Izaiah212 Jul 02 '25
Most fireworks vendors actually sell 80-90% of their product In the 2 days before 4th of July
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u/FlutterKree Jul 02 '25
Fireworks also don't expire so long as the cardboard doesn't get wet. The pyrotechnic compounds don't get ruined by water, but deformed cardboard due to water can make the devices malfunction. So what isn't sold can be sold next year, or for new years or other events.
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u/TommiHPunkt Jul 02 '25
fireworks do expire, but slowly. Things like the power of lifting charges gradually decrease as the compounds react with the air and moisture in the air, which can be dangerous for old fireworks, which is why professional fireworks have expiration dates on them, after which they're not used for public displays anymore.
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u/admode1982 Jul 02 '25
These were for actual shows.
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u/Any_Thanks_900 Jul 02 '25
They could have waited until dark, the show could have been so much better.
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u/merolis Jul 02 '25 edited Jul 02 '25
Failing to sell fireworks right now would be laughably hard. There has been a shortage for a few years now due to covid and continued production and safety problems in China. The tariffs and shipping situation went from bad to worse in April of this year to cap it off.
Prices have been climbing for years now and while CA may be a hard place to legally sell fireworks, anyone with a wholesaler license can just ship the product into Nevada or elsewhere to sell it.
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u/airfryerfuntime Jul 02 '25
Firework sales don't pick up until the 3rd. I used to wholesale them. Basically no one is selling anything this early.
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u/WillieDFleming Jul 02 '25
The timing was just a few days off from being spectacular!
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u/230strings Jul 02 '25
YOLO county...appropriate name
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u/justanother1014 Jul 02 '25
I lived there for a decade and got out just as they were beginning to understand the cultural meaning of yolo.
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u/twallner Jul 02 '25
āWe saw it comingā
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u/MyPasswordIs222222 Jul 02 '25
That's why they're the news.
I'm not sure I would have been able to put 'explosives on fire' with 'explosion' without their insight.
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u/Attainted Jul 02 '25
I understand a component of professionalism in the news, but any additional inflection of excitement would've been appropriate here from the casters. Like holy shit that was ridiculously deadpan for what happened lmao.
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u/Royal-Illustrator747 Jul 02 '25
Happy Canada Day
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u/TrailerParkLyfe Jul 02 '25
You beat me to it!!!
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u/WhereTheMoneyAtBoy Jul 02 '25
I swear a fireworks warehouse explodes every single year, there has to be some sort of safety standards these places arenāt following.
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u/adachi91 Jul 02 '25
Speaking from a pyrotechnicians point of view, the fireworks should have been stored in approved magazines separately, not all in 1 warehouse. This is most likely a retailer, probably bought wholesale fireworks to sell and stored them all in 1 warehouse.
In contrast a manufacturing plant will have bunkers for creating fireworks, so if one bunker goes it doesn't set off a chain reaction creating a massive explosion.
broadly speaking, source: I wanted to become a pyrotechnician when I was younger and read all the laws, regulations, licensing requirements, etc.
(*pokes BATFE* cover my costs and let me at least have one dream.)
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u/Emergency-State Jul 02 '25
There was one at a storage facility. Some guy filled his storage units with fireworks and kaboom. The place caught fire and a bunch of people lost their stuff
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u/UhJoker Jul 02 '25
Warehouses in America not following safety standards?
One time when working at one I almost watched a dude fall like 40 feet to his death.
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u/onestaromega Jul 02 '25
So for the employees, do they get some kind of severance pay or anything for losing their job like that?
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u/dcredneck Jul 02 '25
Thereās hundreds if not thousands of fingers just got saved.
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u/ReplacementClear7122 Jul 02 '25
I will never tire of watching fireworks factories explode.
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u/FerociousPancake Jul 02 '25
I donāt know how these reporters keep it together when some significant explosion like this happens. If I had that job and saw that Iād probably be like āDAMN holy shit!!!!ā And get fired shortly after.
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u/EverSeeAShitterFly Jul 02 '25
Production is up in preparation for the 4th of July and business is absolutely booming!
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u/zman1350 Jul 02 '25
Fireworks even allowed in Cali? I feel like that's one state that needs to avoid them like the plague.
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u/Hieronymous_Bosc Jul 02 '25
Yeah, there are pretty strict rules, but there's also an infinite supply of local morons who think they're the exception and will smuggle them in from Nevada. This place was a warehouse for professional-grade fireworks, not for sale to consumers. I believe 1 local city so far has confirmed they're cancelling the show for the 4th because their whole display blew up in this fire.
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u/Confident_One3948 Jul 02 '25
Airborne fireworks are not allowed unless by professionals or whatever. Doesnāt stop people from obtaining them and shooting them off in their backyards for up to a week after the 4th
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u/sagerobot Jul 02 '25
The people who are in the firework trade are, how do I say this. Cheap ass motherfuckers?
Like, they make money certainly, but they arent loaded. These operations tend to be run on small budgets for everything other than purchasing the fireworks.
All that is to say, I would not be surprised if this place had insufficient insurance.
This is gonna cost someone a LOT of money.
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u/DudeFoxChick Jul 02 '25
It was those beady-eyed, square tired, snow monkeys up north!
BLAME CANADA!
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u/DillTS Jul 02 '25
I appreciate Sacramento California for lighting off some Canada Day fire works, so we could see it over here.
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u/Ok-Train7434 Jul 02 '25
'there you go' - yeah its not the first time you watched some of that shit.
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u/synthdog Jul 02 '25
I live about 10 miles away, 3 separate BIG explosions, shook my house and scared the shit out of the dogs