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and then a powerful explosion. This video looks like a vision of hell. Suddenly, fire and death appeared all around Even the police are running away, saving their own lives. The air was just on fire. Hey, let's get out of here as soon as possible. I pray that the Lord will help me get out of here. A nearby military base makes experts suspect a deadly military secret. The speed at which this explosion spreads is reminiscent of dropping napalm from an airplane. Explosions of this magnitude are something you shouldn't see in an American city.
October 15, 2005. Texarkana, Arkansas. Police Corporal Randy McAdams has been patrolling these streets for 20 years. Responding to the last call at the end of his shift, he heads to the local park to check everything out. Everything seems calm. But suddenly, Hey, and four. McAdams is blinded by a huge white flash. I was struck by a colossal force, I felt it in my chest. He transmits by radio to station 20 main, an explosion on the planes. 10 90, got it. and tries to escape, but the car stalls At this moment, the car simply stops, the light goes out. Then, to his horror, the fog approaches him
I see what appears to be fog in the area. Thoughts fly at a million miles a minute. As the cloud continues to creep towards him, the car miraculously comes to life. That's when the fireball erupts. McAdams puts the car in reverse and runs for his life. Get out of my way. Get out of here as soon as possible. And it looks like the whole world is on fire. I knew I had to get out of there because I saw everything starting to explode and burn. But a few seconds, a few feet in the other direction-and it could have cost me my life.
Experts are puzzled by an explosion in a public park with no obvious ignition source. This is not something you see every day. This is something you never see. I mean, how do you look at it or how do you evaluate it? It was catastrophic. This is a massive explosion. Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Davis has 21 years of Army experience, but even he is baffled by this footage. My first reaction was, "Wow, this looks like a war zone." But this is Texarkana, a city in the state where I'm from. If it was some kind of military-grade explosive, what was it doing here in this area, and where could it have come from? The
massive 16,000-acre Red River Army Depot is located just 18 miles west of Texarkana. Huge stocks of ammunition are stored there Many things are made there and then shipped to where our soldiers need them around the world. Colonel Davis' analysis leads him to believe that this explosion could have been caused by one of the most horrific weapons ever used by the US military. Napalm. One of the reasons I think it might be something like napalm is how quickly the flames came out, and it was clearly burning very hot.
Napalm is a descendant of "Greek fire," which was used by the ancient armies of the Byzantine Empire. This fire was so powerful that it could even set fire to the sea. Its chemical composition was kept a strict secret, but it inspired chemical weapons specialists to create napalm 1,300 years later Their mixture of gasoline and thickener instantly burns everything around at a temperature 5,000 degrees higher than the red-hot lava of Mount St. Helens.
Once it gets on your skin, there's nothing you can do. You can't extinguish it. It will burn until it runs out of fuel. The most famous was the use of napalm in Vietnam. 400,000 tons were dropped on the jungle, incinerating everything in its path. Did a napalm death trap accidentally explode in Texarkana? Pyrotechnician Matt Kutcher worked with explosives in Hollywood for 28 years. He will use his skills to test whether the explosion in Texarkana was caused by napalm.
He covers the car to recreate the reaction of this substance with common objects. Guys, are you ready? We took gasoline and mixed it with a thickener to essentially recreate napalm. So, I think we'll do this: I'll put a little on top of the roof, then maybe on the door, and then throw a little inside to create a wick effect. So when we set fire, everything will catch fire. Napalm is one of the most volatile substances in modern warfare. It is extremely flammable, extremely toxic, and not to be trifled with.
Well, it's time for us to go. He is now more powerful than ever. Kutcher equipped the car with a remote detonator. Is everything ready? Once activated, a small explosive charge will ignite the napalm. Do n't you think that what was raging on the roof of the car was volatile? Kutcher's trained eye notices one important difference between his outburst and the one in the video. You can clearly see the effect of napalm on the roof of the car. You see all that gelatin burning. It doesn't have the same expansion ratio as what I
think is in the video. Napalm is made entirely of gasoline, so it cannot expand and spread through the air like the explosion in Texarkana. This means the Texarkana explosion was caused by something other than gasoline, but what exactly? The police car's video recorder recorded traces of a gas cloud. Ominous smell. I smell some kind of chemical smell. It slowly drifts further south. And a deadly explosion in the usually quiet city of Texarkana.
Transportation analyst Nicole Katsikitis found that the explosion occurred near a major transportation hub. Texarkana is home to this major rail hub, with many trains running daily. My intuition tells me that this is a major rail freight disaster Freight trains transport over 100 million tons of hazardous materials each year. In 2013, the brakes of an unmanned freight train failed. He began to roll down the slope. Each of its 74 railcars carried 30,000 gallons of crude oil. Picking up speed, he headed straight for the Canadian town of Lac- Mégantic, Quebec, just 9 miles from the American border. Derailing at 65 miles per hour, it
crashed into the city center. 47 people were killed and more than 40 buildings were destroyed in the explosion. Firefighter Rick Pavlich battled the Texarkana fire while it raged. We found out that the train was standing at the railway station, and the first full car was with propylene. Propylene is an extremely volatile, flammable gas used in the steel industry for fusion welding The train entered the city, one of the cars derailed and crashed into a car with propylene, piercing the tank. The fire burned for a long time after that. Everything there disappeared, burned down.
Over 13,000 propylene tankers cross the country each year. The only thing we can be sure of is that a similar explosion will happen again.
