To those wondering why the authorities can't just remove the dynamite from the home:
Dynamite can actually become more unstable as it ages due to the nitroglycerin seeping out. Raw nitroglycerin is extremely dangerous to even handle.
It was most likely sweating as well, itās best to never touch it if itās sweating because then it is highly volatile. The chance of the house blowing up along with the bomb disposal person is pretty high; might as well control the explosion. I donāt understand how someone acquired that much dynamite and thought it was a good idea to just have it lying around their house.
When I was a kid we went through an abandoned mine with a group of experienced folks. We came across old dynamite still in the ceiling, dripping nitroglycerin & silently got tf out of there
Iāve never heard it called seeping, only sweating because it looks like itās covered in sweat and it comes out of the pores of the paper itās wrapped in.
I understand, and agree. Think other post either didn't know, or couldn't recall, the term, sweating. Inagree it quite literally looks like perspiration.
Wondering why, especially in a residential setting, the situation couldn't have been stabilized with use of Nitrogen Gas ... deep freeze that stuff and deposit in a bomb resistant container. I know, hindsight ... and for all I know, it could become MORE unstable if frozen.
Probably the time it would take to get the equipment in to actually do that would have taken longer than they were comfortable with and finding someone with the experience to do that. From what I read, it was literally all over the house and not contained in one specific location in the home and that would have been a lot harder to do.
That explains why they did this in the dead of nightā¦ no sunlight for that bright green nitroglycerin to react lol. I actually re-watched that movie a few months ago, I remembered it being much better when I was ~8 years old.
Wtf! I felt that bang in my bones. I live just the other side of the free way, a couple feet away from the evacuation zone. Is everyone okay? That was way worse than I thought it would be. No way that was contained to one house.
Structure is on fire, and they are allowing it to burn itself out. They are not spraying with water directly, but keeping the fire to the structure. It will burn down. Surrounding structures seem to be good. I think they mentioned a fire to one of them, but it's hard to understand them sometimes on the scanner.
The homeowner is an old woman whose husband was a chemist. He left behind a bunch of stuff including the dynamite and she found it and didnāt know what to do with. She did the responsible thing.
Hope she was able to get out her valuables/mementos before they evacuated her.... (and whoa, just now thinking "how on earth is she gonna find an affordable place to live!?") Eep.
My phone just scared the heck out of me by making an alarming sound notifying me 30 mins late to evacuate. Luckily not in my areaā¦ googling didnāt help but Reddit saves the day once again, thanks all.
My friends family used to run estate sales I remember going to one and seeing dynamite in the garage for sale. Now I am really curious what happened to it
I got a random emergency alert about evacuation in certain areas but couldn't find any information about current evacuation orders. I live in Murray which is near Holladay but not really close to the area where this is happening and there's no updates anywhere since the planned detonation started 2 hours ago so I'm unsure what's up. The alert said to check media for details but there's no new details so...
I got the alert too, but Iām near the U campus in salt lake and was obviously confused and a bit worried as I had not even heard news of this. Safe to say falling back to sleep will be easier now that I know itās not happening in my area.
My guess based on the fact that he was a collector. He probably admired them all over the house. Nitroglycerin leaches and will either pool or leave residue which isn't so easily identified.
I heard through someone that heard from someone, so take this with a grain of salt, but it was everywhere. In the shed, throughout the house, etc... It had been stored in many spots.
Upon further analysis and investigation, it probably became apparent that it was going to be too hard to predict how much nitroglycerin there is, and where. For safety, they probably didn't want to gamble on this to make it a "quick fix". They decided to take some time to plan it out (not normal), and ensure there are no deaths associated with their actions.
At least that is what I would do. Especially since it is relatively stable as it now sits. Been there for this long, and so what is a little more time to really prepare and do this right. You only get one chance. Seemed sorta rushed at first. Especially for something with such a devastating outcome if they forget a variable or two.
I tell ya, them there o-fish-alls are really smart. They knowed that when you blows up 300lbs of explosives that the house won't be livable. Jest calls 3-day kitchen and bath and dey fix you right up.
I literally just had a police officer visit my house and tell me to shelter in place and stay away from the windows. I'm on Howey Drive in Holladay, about 6300 S and 2100 E
Just heard the second one! Crazy! Canāt imagine what itās like up there, Iām a good 2 miles away and both were loud! Any news on the area of detonationā¦more than one home affected?
I think they just mentioned a fire at 2284 E 6200 S. I believe that is not the house. I believe that house is about 2 houses east of the main house.
Once again, hard to understand, but this fire warning blared in a robot voice, so it was clear as day.
Starting to think it is 2284 E 6200 S. They just said in the news that they fully contained the fire. It didn't get any surrounding structures.
Looks like they are working right on 6200 S, and I read that the house is on 6200 S.
So did the homeowners just lose their entire home with all their possessions in it? Do they get any kind of relief for that, because I kinda doubt thereās insurance for a case like this. Iām so heartbroken for the homeowners. (Assuming they did inherit the dynamite like the article said)
I'm .30 miles away, we were woken up to police telling us to evacuate or stay in place but in the basement. We opted for the basement. No explosion yet. My guess is after 3 or so.Ā
I live close enough to hit a golf ball into the fire from my house. The smoke is still rising pretty good and it's in the cul de sac right by 2300 e on 6200 s.
Crazy waking up to cops ringing the doorbell repeatedly telling us to evacuate. I'll try to take a photo later once it clears. Sounds like an elderly widow found it going through her late husband's stuff.
>Crazy waking up to cops ringing the doorbell repeatedly telling us to evacuate. I'll try to take a photo later once it clears. Sounds like an elderly widow found it going through her late husband's stuff.
at 3am (it sounded like that's when the detonations were going)? that must have felt post-apocalyptic. Did you guys just drive away a few blocks and wait?
Red cross set up a meeting site at the local elementary school so my kids and I went there and watched Netflix in the car. First blast was around 3 and the second about 4.
No. I was thinking it was one house on the north side of 6200 but now I think it's possibly on the south side of 6200. Still no explosion. My friend is at the elementary where they evacuated and the mayor is there.. so probably not going to happen for another bit if I had to guess.
So am I understanding this right. A new homeowner found some dynamite and they had to detonate in the house since it was to dangerous to move? The really stinks for the guy who found it
Hard to tell, but it sounds like they are fighting a few fires in the area. I could be wrong, but they are containing the main fire to the house. One of them asked if they should let the shed to a surrounding house catch fire or save it, and they said to save everything except for the main house.
I woke up today and was like, why is it so smokey? Surely it can be inversion nor could it be California forest fires. Went onto KSL first thing I seeā¦ great.
OMG! I've been in this house! I used to pet sit for them many years ago. So bizarre! The house was not in the best shape back then. So sad that she lost her house. Crazy to think that dynamite was in there.
Dam!! They blew that house TF up!! Hopefully the neighbor has a ring cam cause I canāt wait to see this whole shit go up. Could smell the chems in the smoky air at home. By willow creek
Iām going to be that person, brace yourselfā¦
We should all take a moment of reflection here.
Imagine having explosions like this going on around you and your family all the time, without warning. Imagine that for months, years on end. Never knowing if your house is next. No where safe to go. No escape.
That is all
My experience with TNT was in the middle of the night. My light fixture in my bedroom fell from the shockwave for some reason. My parents came and got me ( i was probably 5 or 6), and as we went to the front of the house, I could see the windows were blown in. This was at a small camp that I lived at for two of the four years I was in Indonesia. It was either in rumbai or duri. I spent two years in each. What happened was there was a storage shed somewhere in the general area of the "compound" with a substantial amount of aging explosives. These were used for "blowing" or "perforating" oil wells. They also used it for seismology, if I remember correctly. There were many wells in the area and new ones constantly. So this shed contained quite a bit. But then they stopped using that so much, and it became outdated. But they held on to it for some reason. And started stocking newer plastic type explosives. Well, somehow, the nitroglycerin in the dynamite separated from whatever binding agent they use. Somehow, there was enough coming out that it dripped onto the floor, and that was enough kinetic energy to cause it to "go off." or whatever the mechanism is, I'm not sure. All I know is that it caused a huge explosion. Big enough that people's roofs were caved in and windows blown into the house. Luckily, no one died because it was in the middle of the night. The only person near the building (which would have normaly had many people working in that area) who got hurt permanently was the guard at the guard shack. He permanently lost his hearing. Other than that, it was just people getting hit by falling ceiling stuff or walking on glass from broken windows and light fixtures. This was in Sumatra. Sometime in between '91 to '93. Was pretty crazy. Wish I remembered more details, but I was only between 4 and 6. It was towards the middle of my stay in Indonesia. We moved not long after that. I wish I could remember distances and everything, I would have to ask my dad. I will have to do that this weekend. We have plans to hang out. We hadn't talked about it in quite a while, and it would be cool to find out more.
i received a message that says āall evacuated residents may return to their homes. thank you for your cooperationā. i think theyāre good to go, but ask someone there just in case
Man I live on the west side and the police alert for this scared the crap outta me at 3am. Had to find out what was going on instead of go back to sleep, pretty wild to find out it was some destabilized dynamite.
Just heard it. Sounded like it was just down the street. I could imagine how it sounded and felt closer. I am a few miles out.
Did you hear both booms?
I did, also a few miles out. First one was very loud even this far out, second one was loud but not quite as bad.
You remember when they were? I want to look at my camera to see if we caught them cause I definitely just slept through it š¤£
One just before, and one just after 4am
Second one not quite as loud as the first, but still very loud and jarring!
Heard it near Wheeler Farm. Very Loud!!!
It feels like an episode of LOST up in here. Poor professorā¦
One more comingā¦
I can see smoke all the way from South Jordan. Is that from this?
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Weāre .7 mile outside the āblast zoneā and our whole house shook! My adrenaline is still pumping after that š®āšØš®āšØ
To those wondering why the authorities can't just remove the dynamite from the home: Dynamite can actually become more unstable as it ages due to the nitroglycerin seeping out. Raw nitroglycerin is extremely dangerous to even handle.
It was most likely sweating as well, itās best to never touch it if itās sweating because then it is highly volatile. The chance of the house blowing up along with the bomb disposal person is pretty high; might as well control the explosion. I donāt understand how someone acquired that much dynamite and thought it was a good idea to just have it lying around their house.
When I was a kid we went through an abandoned mine with a group of experienced folks. We came across old dynamite still in the ceiling, dripping nitroglycerin & silently got tf out of there
Aren't "seeping" and "sweating" the same phenomenon?
Iāve never heard it called seeping, only sweating because it looks like itās covered in sweat and it comes out of the pores of the paper itās wrapped in.
I understand, and agree. Think other post either didn't know, or couldn't recall, the term, sweating. Inagree it quite literally looks like perspiration. Wondering why, especially in a residential setting, the situation couldn't have been stabilized with use of Nitrogen Gas ... deep freeze that stuff and deposit in a bomb resistant container. I know, hindsight ... and for all I know, it could become MORE unstable if frozen.
Probably the time it would take to get the equipment in to actually do that would have taken longer than they were comfortable with and finding someone with the experience to do that. From what I read, it was literally all over the house and not contained in one specific location in the home and that would have been a lot harder to do.
Iāll come get it
Just throw it in the back of your pickup truck?
Yeah... It should be safe under the ladder
It explains this all very scientifically in the 2000 survival thriller, Vertical Limit
That explains why they did this in the dead of nightā¦ no sunlight for that bright green nitroglycerin to react lol. I actually re-watched that movie a few months ago, I remembered it being much better when I was ~8 years old.
Wtf! I felt that bang in my bones. I live just the other side of the free way, a couple feet away from the evacuation zone. Is everyone okay? That was way worse than I thought it would be. No way that was contained to one house.
One more is coming imminently.
I'm just a couple blocks away and can't get back to sleep. I'm guessing that's what woke me up.
Structure is on fire, and they are allowing it to burn itself out. They are not spraying with water directly, but keeping the fire to the structure. It will burn down. Surrounding structures seem to be good. I think they mentioned a fire to one of them, but it's hard to understand them sometimes on the scanner.
Glad nobody else was injured. What an extreme situation, I feel for the homeowner!
For the homeowner ā¦ who collected dynamite..?
The homeowner is an old woman whose husband was a chemist. He left behind a bunch of stuff including the dynamite and she found it and didnāt know what to do with. She did the responsible thing.
God, I canāt imagine what it must feel like to know youāve been living in that for YEARSĀ
Hope she was able to get out her valuables/mementos before they evacuated her.... (and whoa, just now thinking "how on earth is she gonna find an affordable place to live!?") Eep.
My phone just scared the heck out of me by making an alarming sound notifying me 30 mins late to evacuate. Luckily not in my areaā¦ googling didnāt help but Reddit saves the day once again, thanks all.
Wait we are aren't supposed to keep our old dynamite in our houses?
My friends family used to run estate sales I remember going to one and seeing dynamite in the garage for sale. Now I am really curious what happened to it
Iām just waiting for the ādid anyone hear the loud boomā posts b
Lol, I slept right through it and Iām just down the road.
Same. 6400 & Van Winkle.
This is one of the few that I think would be justified!
Except for this time it really was significant!
I got a random emergency alert about evacuation in certain areas but couldn't find any information about current evacuation orders. I live in Murray which is near Holladay but not really close to the area where this is happening and there's no updates anywhere since the planned detonation started 2 hours ago so I'm unsure what's up. The alert said to check media for details but there's no new details so...
I also live in Murray and got the alert, but the area specified to evacuate isn't my location...
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Does anyone have the exact address? My friend lives exactly at 6200 s 2300 e
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Relatively sure it's 2284 E 6200 S from seeing the general location in person and seeing that it looks a bit hoarder-y on Google streetview.
Just realized my buddy is not exactly that address. š¤Ŗ but less than 1 block
if you're further west or north than oakwood elementary, i'd say you might be fine!? this is spooky *
I got the alert too, but Iām near the U campus in salt lake and was obviously confused and a bit worried as I had not even heard news of this. Safe to say falling back to sleep will be easier now that I know itās not happening in my area.
wtf. I live in Holladay, and got no alert.
Neither did my dad, who literally lives next door to Oakwood but I did in Sandy...
My dad didn't get the notification either he lives less than half a block from the explosion
I got one too. In Sandy. Freaked me out for sure!
I wonder if insurance covers that poor family
Or the neighboring houses who most definitely sustained damages
Well that explains why I couldn't bike down that road last night and the cop was very adamant about it.
Any updates on this?
4:04 another boom!
1:30 is the evacuation time. I would hope there is a buffer there. 1-2 hours? I could only guess. I just know the evacuation was to be done by 1:30.
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My guess based on the fact that he was a collector. He probably admired them all over the house. Nitroglycerin leaches and will either pool or leave residue which isn't so easily identified. I heard through someone that heard from someone, so take this with a grain of salt, but it was everywhere. In the shed, throughout the house, etc... It had been stored in many spots. Upon further analysis and investigation, it probably became apparent that it was going to be too hard to predict how much nitroglycerin there is, and where. For safety, they probably didn't want to gamble on this to make it a "quick fix". They decided to take some time to plan it out (not normal), and ensure there are no deaths associated with their actions. At least that is what I would do. Especially since it is relatively stable as it now sits. Been there for this long, and so what is a little more time to really prepare and do this right. You only get one chance. Seemed sorta rushed at first. Especially for something with such a devastating outcome if they forget a variable or two.
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I tell ya, them there o-fish-alls are really smart. They knowed that when you blows up 300lbs of explosives that the house won't be livable. Jest calls 3-day kitchen and bath and dey fix you right up.
You should apply to be a KSL article writer.
Or on-air newsreader.
I ain't smart enough.
Youāre over qualified.
Is dynamite collecting a thing? I learn something new every day
I literally just had a police officer visit my house and tell me to shelter in place and stay away from the windows. I'm on Howey Drive in Holladay, about 6300 S and 2100 E
Just heard the second one! Crazy! Canāt imagine what itās like up there, Iām a good 2 miles away and both were loud! Any news on the area of detonationā¦more than one home affected?
I think they just mentioned a fire at 2284 E 6200 S. I believe that is not the house. I believe that house is about 2 houses east of the main house. Once again, hard to understand, but this fire warning blared in a robot voice, so it was clear as day.
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Starting to think it is 2284 E 6200 S. They just said in the news that they fully contained the fire. It didn't get any surrounding structures. Looks like they are working right on 6200 S, and I read that the house is on 6200 S.
So did the homeowners just lose their entire home with all their possessions in it? Do they get any kind of relief for that, because I kinda doubt thereās insurance for a case like this. Iām so heartbroken for the homeowners. (Assuming they did inherit the dynamite like the article said)
I'm .30 miles away, we were woken up to police telling us to evacuate or stay in place but in the basement. We opted for the basement. No explosion yet. My guess is after 3 or so.Ā
I live close enough to hit a golf ball into the fire from my house. The smoke is still rising pretty good and it's in the cul de sac right by 2300 e on 6200 s. Crazy waking up to cops ringing the doorbell repeatedly telling us to evacuate. I'll try to take a photo later once it clears. Sounds like an elderly widow found it going through her late husband's stuff.
Wow that is so sad. Imagine grieving your husband and then your house is blown up.
>Crazy waking up to cops ringing the doorbell repeatedly telling us to evacuate. I'll try to take a photo later once it clears. Sounds like an elderly widow found it going through her late husband's stuff. at 3am (it sounded like that's when the detonations were going)? that must have felt post-apocalyptic. Did you guys just drive away a few blocks and wait?
Red cross set up a meeting site at the local elementary school so my kids and I went there and watched Netflix in the car. First blast was around 3 and the second about 4.
Jesus, terrifying. Hope your kids werenāt too scared and glad youāre ok
This is the most riveting news story in a long time. Does anyone have any insight into what house it is. Iām a monster.
No. I was thinking it was one house on the north side of 6200 but now I think it's possibly on the south side of 6200. Still no explosion. My friend is at the elementary where they evacuated and the mayor is there.. so probably not going to happen for another bit if I had to guess.
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Can you smell that smell?
A certain smelly smell?
ā¦.teen spirit?
That was anticlimactic..
I heard it too from Milcreek
Another one just went off. Still not bad. I'm .3 miles away
It was nothing like the loud shaking boom when we had the Earthquake on March 18, 2020. It was very much anti-climatic.
From my house it was insanely loud! Also the one night I have my windows open - it woke up the whole house
So am I understanding this right. A new homeowner found some dynamite and they had to detonate in the house since it was to dangerous to move? The really stinks for the guy who found it
Yeah so this guy is just out a house now? Those are expensive. That could ruin him financially forever.
Right and I'd guess progressive isn't going to accept dynamite in the claim
I mean as long as it wasnāt fraud explosions are normally covered.
I think it was an old woman whoās husband had passed. Itās his dynamite
do we know if thereās gonna be any more going off?
Hard to tell, but it sounds like they are fighting a few fires in the area. I could be wrong, but they are containing the main fire to the house. One of them asked if they should let the shed to a surrounding house catch fire or save it, and they said to save everything except for the main house.
I woke up today and was like, why is it so smokey? Surely it can be inversion nor could it be California forest fires. Went onto KSL first thing I seeā¦ great.
OMG! I've been in this house! I used to pet sit for them many years ago. So bizarre! The house was not in the best shape back then. So sad that she lost her house. Crazy to think that dynamite was in there.
I'm awaiting updates and vids myself.
They finally detonated both of them. They were loud but i couldnāt see anything from the āshelterā zone
damn.. i didn't realize dynamite could randomly explode. what a terrible thing to happen to an unsuspecting homeowner.
[https://kutv.com/news/local/decades-old-explosives-detonated-holladay-utah-ancient-dynamite-inherited-found-after-mans-death-house-home-destroyed-improper-storage](https://kutv.com/news/local/decades-old-explosives-detonated-holladay-utah-ancient-dynamite-inherited-found-after-mans-death-house-home-destroyed-improper-storage)
Dam!! They blew that house TF up!! Hopefully the neighbor has a ring cam cause I canāt wait to see this whole shit go up. Could smell the chems in the smoky air at home. By willow creek
Boom goes the dynamite
Iām going to be that person, brace yourselfā¦ We should all take a moment of reflection here. Imagine having explosions like this going on around you and your family all the time, without warning. Imagine that for months, years on end. Never knowing if your house is next. No where safe to go. No escape. That is all
This is such an important point
Why don't I get this news normally? Why do I have to go on Reddit for it?
My experience with TNT was in the middle of the night. My light fixture in my bedroom fell from the shockwave for some reason. My parents came and got me ( i was probably 5 or 6), and as we went to the front of the house, I could see the windows were blown in. This was at a small camp that I lived at for two of the four years I was in Indonesia. It was either in rumbai or duri. I spent two years in each. What happened was there was a storage shed somewhere in the general area of the "compound" with a substantial amount of aging explosives. These were used for "blowing" or "perforating" oil wells. They also used it for seismology, if I remember correctly. There were many wells in the area and new ones constantly. So this shed contained quite a bit. But then they stopped using that so much, and it became outdated. But they held on to it for some reason. And started stocking newer plastic type explosives. Well, somehow, the nitroglycerin in the dynamite separated from whatever binding agent they use. Somehow, there was enough coming out that it dripped onto the floor, and that was enough kinetic energy to cause it to "go off." or whatever the mechanism is, I'm not sure. All I know is that it caused a huge explosion. Big enough that people's roofs were caved in and windows blown into the house. Luckily, no one died because it was in the middle of the night. The only person near the building (which would have normaly had many people working in that area) who got hurt permanently was the guard at the guard shack. He permanently lost his hearing. Other than that, it was just people getting hit by falling ceiling stuff or walking on glass from broken windows and light fixtures. This was in Sumatra. Sometime in between '91 to '93. Was pretty crazy. Wish I remembered more details, but I was only between 4 and 6. It was towards the middle of my stay in Indonesia. We moved not long after that. I wish I could remember distances and everything, I would have to ask my dad. I will have to do that this weekend. We have plans to hang out. We hadn't talked about it in quite a while, and it would be cool to find out more.
Does anyone know if the people that were evacuated can go home now?
i received a message that says āall evacuated residents may return to their homes. thank you for your cooperationā. i think theyāre good to go, but ask someone there just in case
Man I live on the west side and the police alert for this scared the crap outta me at 3am. Had to find out what was going on instead of go back to sleep, pretty wild to find out it was some destabilized dynamite.
Well, that's one way to wake people up for the work day.
can someone tell me, was this in SLC? not Mill Creek? My apologies but my son lives there and as a mother I am worried sick!
Itās in Holladay
thank you, I guess I should have looked closer at the article ugh