A huge explosion at a gas station in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya.

https://imgur.com/49kKzwy.mp4

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Hubi@feddit.org · 31 pts · 1y

I take back everything I've ever said about Michael Bay movies.

MildlyArdvark@feddit.dk · 29 pts · 1y

Glifted@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 1y

Looks like the first camera guy made it but man that's close

hate2bme@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y (4 replies)

In the second video does it look like the big flaming thing rolls over someone running?

DarkThoughts@fedia.io · 12 pts · 1y (1 reply)

100%, around 6 seconds in. No way they dodged that.

hate2bme@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

What a way to go. Although it is kinda their fault.

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

can we see the first videographer? I think there are two people trying to get out of its way

hate2bme@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

No. The first video ends on a car you can't see in the 2nd video.

taiyang@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

If video games have taught me anything, it's that the rolling piece of something coming at you is about to trigger a quick time event. Get ready to dodge!

Brickhead92@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

O

Presses X, tanker to the face.

ironsoap@lemmy.one · 5 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Someone correct me, but that looks like natural gas or LPG, turning into a what amounts to a fuel air bomb. I'm assuming it's a secondary to an attack.

Weirdmusic@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

It's called a BLEVE (boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion) and they'the things of nightmares.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_liquid_expanding_vapor_explosion)

ironsoap@lemmy.one · 5 pts · 1y

Ah, yes... How could my mythbuster lessons in explosions leave my memory?

Spitzspot@lemmings.world · 3 pts · 1y

Wow