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There are no survivors in the blast at a Tennessee explosives factory, sheriff says

16 people died in a blast at a Tennessee explosives factory early Friday, the sheriff says

McEWEN, Tenn. (AP) — The blast in rural Tennessee that leveled an explosives plant and was felt for miles around left no survivors, authorities said Saturday.

The total number of dead was unclear, as was the cause of the Friday blast. By the weekend, the devastation came into focus, with officials saying they had found no survivors. A total of 16 people were missing, officials said.

“There’s a gauntlet of emotions there,” Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis said during a news conference, pausing to clear his throat before he asked for prayers for the families of the victims in a shaky voice.

“We’ve recovered no survivors,” he added.

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“There’s a lot of people hurting. A lot of people who are crying a lot of tears,” he said. “We are sad that our community is going through this, but it’s a tremendous opportunity for the church to minister to a lot of those people today.”
That's such a sick statement to make. Truly disgusting.
- Cults feed on shit like this. Desperate and distraught people are their favourite victims, except for children of course.
- I'm not religious but I don't see the problem with pointing out that the church can offer a lot of support to people after something like this.
  
  He said “ minister “ not support. Seeing a tragedy as an opportunity to minister aka get more people into your church aka MORE MONEY for yourself, is far from supporting people who need it. It’s predatory and disgusting. I grew up knee deep in that shit and hated every second of it.
- Fuck anyone for trying to comfort another person if their worldview doesn’t match mine. Right, buddy?
  
  Don't feel sad about downvotes. It's too bad it happened, but this is a great opportunity to tell you that the Eric the God Eating Penguin exists!
  
  It’s not about matching worldviews. It’s about the statement essentially being “yeah it sucks for these people, but it’ll be great for the church.” At best, it’s tone-deaf. At worst, it’s downright sociopathic. Comforting someone else shouldn’t ever be about how it can benefit you.
  
  First of all, opportunities are positive events, not things that one dreads. Calling the death of 16 people an opportunity to advance the goals of your church is sick.
  Second, fuck religion. I don't hate people who are duped into them. I hate the people doing the duping. I don't care about Joe Schmoe who goes to church on Sunday, but I hate the priest who touches children and rants to his congregation about sin and going to Hell.
  
  Your comments show that your empathy is underdeveloped.
  Comfort isn't about yourself. When someone is grieving, you don't do what makes yourself better, you do what makes them feel better.
  Calling the loss of lives an 'opportunity' is making it about yourself because it describes how this situation benefits your personal religious agenda, not the beliefs of others. Proselytizing to others in their most vulnerable moment because it makes you feel accomplished is making it about yourself, not them.
  
  Dumb
  
  If comfort were the actual goal, you'd be right. But Christians are lying snakes, sooo.....
Considering that our Trump-loving governor let Elon Musk install poisonous gas turbines in my hometown and is letting the National Guard and ICE run rampant, I won't be surprised if he blames this on "left-wing actors." Fuck you, Bill Lee. R.I.P to those lost in the blast.
- The one thing I know is that they will go about their 'left wing has been responsible for 200% of all terrorism since 1828 and the only violent actions we took are in self-defence and started literally last Tuesday' schtick for forever and a day. No amount of refutation or rational argumentation will ever convince them otherwise. A mentally ill pissed off person throwing a sandwich at a guard justifies hit and runs and shoot first, don't bother with questions going forward (and if it didn't happen, they would still do it).
- Fuck governor HVAC.
- I'm sorry if you, or anyone you know, is touched by this. Fuck anyone who contributed to this happening.
You can bet this can be backtracked to some deregulation shit.
- 100%
  I can't imagine safety regulations wouldn't have included separation of large amounts of explosives by distance or with some kind of materials to avoid such a catastrophic explosion.
  
  So, they do. Unfortunately, there aren't realistic safety precautions that can be taken that don't have some risk of catastrophic failure if you're dealing with the manufacturing and storage of explosives. Even small quantities are destructive enough to be dangerous to store.
  Ultimately safe storage comes down to human operational concerns. Missing or unenforced regulations relating to working hours, training, training compliance, or handling safety concerns would be my guess rather than storage conditions.
- MAGA in action? DuPont used to have a brutally practical way to deal with pesky explosions in it's black powder factories:
  The mill buildings used in the manufacture of gunpowder were built with strong stone-walled structures on three sides but were only covered by light wood structures on the fourth side, which faced out onto the Brandywine Creek. When an accident occurred, the explosion was directed away from the other mills and storage areas and over the creek.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleutherian_Mills
  The opposite of progressive is regressive.
- It's good for business to make sure nothing stands in the way of success. That's why safety and humanity are nowhere to be found.
  
  It's good for business to make sure nothing stands in the way of success.
  And explosives apparently...
- not worry about that, they'll blame trans or black people
Negligence due to reduced regulation or sabotage? Take your bets, people!
- Honestly I'm surprised Mark Green isn't already all over the media claiming it was sabotaged by antifa.
I wonder if they knew the place was gonna blow or if it was just lights out in an instant with no warning. Explosives tend to be the latter, for better or worse
- A lot of explosions at similar facilities had significant warning, unfortunately. While the detonation itself tends to be instant, they usually have rules about how densely explosives are packed, fire control systems, and systems to maximize the time between problem and disaster.
  They probably knew something was wrong and that it was bad, but not how bad.
  
  This same facility had an explosion in 2014 that resulted in death. The fact that they didn't learn from that and chose to continue to be reckless is sad and infuriating.
Apparently not the first time.
Sucks that Ukraine might see fewer shells from this.
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Our portfolio includes a comprehensive range of energetics based on HMX, HNS, PETN, RDX, and TNT.
Energetics. Yeah that's one way of putting it.
Not quite Oppau, but close.
- Energetic materials is the common way to group explosives, pyrotechnics and propellants.
  Anything that carries its own oxygen, is self sustained and reacts exothermic.
  
  I see. Thank you!
  Do you work with any energetics?
- And the Halifax, Nova Scotia explosion that killed 1782 people.
  Fyi -- this is why every year Halifax sends a Christmas tree to Boston (who sent scores of people to help the city) as a thank-you.
oh nooooo those poor murder bomb makers 🍆 💦
This fucking sucks. :(
RIP
That was obvious. I don’t know why we needed a second headline for that
Yeah, I have my doubts they were making bombs for a good cause...

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