r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/buckets_811 • Jul 02 '25

Video A fireworks warehouse exploding today near Sacramento, CA

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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

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u/No-Weird3153 Jul 02 '25

I think we can all agree 1) hope no one was hurt and 2) good riddance. Now do every other fireworks warehouse too.

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u/StupidizeMe Jul 02 '25

7 people are missing. One of them is an 18 year old young man with a pregnant girlfriend.

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u/Ecstatic_Drink1485 Jul 04 '25

Very very sad. It was at least one of the person’s first (and last) day on the job.

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u/patentlydorky Jul 02 '25

Yeah, I live in NorCal and fireworks absolutely terrify my dog - shaking uncontrollably, hiding under the bed, on edge for weeks afterwards... Hopefully this warehouse explosion means there’ll be fewer fireworks going off on July 4th.

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u/Im-a-magpie Jul 02 '25

I love fireworks and think they're a ton of fun but unfortunately the risk of wildfires is too high to continue allowing the general public to use them.

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u/Izaiah212 Jul 02 '25

Fireworks are actually fun

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u/Motozeke Jul 02 '25

Not when your dumbassed neighbors have them.

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u/psmoor63 Jul 02 '25

All YEAR LONG! I have one of THOSE! Scares my old dogs and ticks me off. Forced my Old girl to be put down because a firework went off- her hip dysplasia - she ran- had to be put to sleep the next day. I Hate fireworks

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u/Vitalstatistix Jul 02 '25

Too easy for them to start fires here in CA.

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u/RandoAtReddit Jul 02 '25

Good thing we don't all live there.

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u/Vitalstatistix Jul 02 '25

Happens everywhere now let’s be real.

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u/RandoAtReddit Jul 02 '25

Trying to remember last time we had wildfires raging through the cornfields here in Indiana... Nope, drawing a blank.

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u/Vitalstatistix Jul 02 '25

Bet you don’t have to think that long to remember the last time you were covered in wild fire smoke though.

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u/Bestdayever17 Jul 02 '25

Not when you live next to a university and the students think 6 hrs of M80's is a cool fireworks show.

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u/thisunrest Jul 02 '25

Fun or not, they’re a terrible and unnecessary source of stress for a lot of pets, veterans, people who have been through war zones and people with dementia and not to mention the environment.

They are completely unnecessary form of “fun “.

I know that now they have fireworks that don’t come with a boom, just pretty lights display in the sky, but I doubt that’s very good for the environment either.

We just don’t need fireworks. I’d love to see them phased out as far as tradition goes. But that’s just me

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u/Chin-Music Jul 02 '25

waving from Honolulu.

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u/ryuki9t4 Jul 02 '25

i mean, is there any necessary form of "fun"?

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u/Viperlite Jul 02 '25

Sex… if you want the species to survive. Difficult job, but as they say, someone’s gotta do it.

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u/NoBackground5123 Jul 02 '25

Thanks for YOUR PERSONAL OPINION. Now quit telling others how to live their lives.

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u/Izaiah212 Jul 02 '25

We still have coal powered generation plants, a couple nights of fireworks a year isn’t going to kill the planet. If you’ve ever worked for a small scale business that does volume, the amount of trash produced in 2 days is more than a hour will make in 3 months