Holy Shit – Video of an Entire Fireworks Warehouse in California Exploding, Started a 80-Acre Fire

I suppose hindsight is 20/20, and politically speaking I've always considered myself pro-fireworks, but maybe California is one place we shouldn't fill massive warehouses with thousands and thousands of explosives stacked on top of each other lined up wall-to-wall. Maybe just no fireworks at all in that state. I know I'm starting to sound like one of those crazy "fireworks are the devil's flashlights" religious nuts. But if you'd have told me a city in California experienced a fireworks warehouse explosion, considering every time a homeless person lights a cigarette in the valley half the state is on fire for the next 6 months. A single firework from a gender reveal party once started a fire that spanned 22,000 acres. I'd have really thought a fireworks warehouse explosion meant the end of California for good. Time for everyone form Crescent City to San Diego to pack up their belongings and move to Austin. No way is California surviving that one. 

But somehow, despite multiple commercial buildings going up in flames in this 80-acre fire, and the fire being 0% contained as of this morning, this report almost seems like a win. 

Stockton Record – CalFire crews are currently battling a 78-acre blaze in the Esparto area of Yolo County.

The "Oakdale Fire" started at 6:02 p.m. on Tuesday, July 1 after a series of large explosions ripped through a nearby fireworks warehouse, leading to surrounding spot vegetation fires, as first reported by KCRA.

As of 7 a.m. July 2, the fire is 0% contained.

No injuries have been reported. An active evacuation zone in place around the property.

Responding crews confronted multiple fires at multiple commercial buildings on the site, said Lawrence and more firefighting resources were called in for support.

The fire chief said no injuries were reported, and the cause of the explosion is being investigated by California’s State Fire Marshal Arson and Bomb Unit.

The fire will take time to cool, and once it does, explosive experts must safely enter the site to assess and secure the area, according to the Yolo County Sheriff's Office, and is strongly urge everyone to continue avoiding the area for the next several days so that fire crews, law enforcement, and emergency personnel can do their jobs safely and effectively.

Not sure how there could have been no injuries from that. And if you were wondering what a fireworks warehouse explosion looks like from multiple different angles… whether or not it looks as spectacular as you'd think it would… the answer is, yeah it kinda does.

Would have been way more of a spectacle at night, but still, that is undoubtedly a warehouse full of fireworks. Would have been nice if the explosion could have at least waited until Friday after dark so that people would have been outside and ready for the show. Kind of a waste to blow up your fireworks warehouse at 6pm during lightest part of the year.