The Holladay homeowner where dynamite was detonated Wednesday morning is apologizing to neighbors for the damage to their homes and disruption to their lives. Read more: ksltv.com/639989/holladay-hom...
Well, considering there was uncontained leaked mercury in the house , other chemicals, and dynamite it wasn't safe to let her into the home to retrieve anything..
@@jasonasselin But the other guys comment, which was basically the same principal as mine, is solid? I know all I need to know about ya now...Have a great day.
Video said a farmer in oregon. 50+ years ago dynamite was more easily available and farmers here in the western mountains often had cause to use it. I was around it a few times as a child and teen in the 1970s. I personally never used dynamite, but I did apply a lot of chemicals that have since been banned as too hazardous to use, and back then we didn't use any protective gear. Like a mole/gopher poison in the form of small granules that would evaporate forming cyanide gas. Cyan-a-gas or something like that. Strongly recommend good ventilation and holding your breath while the tin is open, continuing until you get the hole covered where you dropped the teaspoon of granules. Times have changed, in large part for the better.
Fascinating? He had explosives in his home. Over years and years. Anyone who knows anything about dynamite knows how dangerous that is and he just didn't care.
They said they removed a lot, but how many chemicals were blown up into the neighbors air and onto their property? I'd want an environmental checkup if my house was anywhere nearby.
What a kind lady. Thinking of her neighbors when she lost everything. That could have gone up with her in it and no one would have known the whole story.
I think she's probably really embarrassed, too. To realize that her husband's negligence and her negligence has so much damage and upset in the community she's lived in for 51 years must be very difficult.
Yep, she's so kind she sat around while her husband put her & everyone in the neighborhood at risk w/out saying a thing. Radioactive materials? Seriously? And it's dismissed with "I think he just lost track of how much he had." He had no right to have ANY of it. Ridiculous.
@@kenbland3455 why can't we care about everyone who suffered the loss of homes? As an older disabled woman. I can tell you that younger people are more likely to be stronger in such a situation. I am working very hard to give you the benefit of the doubt, because what you could be saying about this woman could be sadly insulting. I hope not.😳
Non-chemist asking, here: what does it mean that the dynamite could have crystallized, and why would it be impossible to remove it if it were in that condition?
@@ericemmons3040the nitroglycerin in dynamite weeps out of its stabilizers, forming a crystal on the outside of the stick of dynamite. Any amount of movement can cause an explosion when it’s in that state.
I’m so glad in the years my husband spent teaching Chemistry he kept all the chemicals at the school on OSHA approved containment. Also glad he decided to change jobs, but that’s a different news topic 😂
Why did they detonate the Dynomite when there were still tons of potentially deadly chemicals that are now spread all over the neighborhood thanks to that blast???
The aged dynamite. If they had to detonate it, then it has leeched and had nitroglycerine crystals formed on it. Plus - there were all the other fairly nasty chemicals.
The dynamite was stable for decades and likely would remain so if not disturbed, but they couldn't move the personal belongings of the old lady as well as let neighbors board up windows? The EPA should have at least given the homeowners in the area a few days. Now they neighbors will need to file claims against the old lady's home insurance, if she had it, to pay for repairs.
I'm sure it's just protocol that once they find items like this, it's their duty to preserve life. Even though the items had been sitting undisturbed for years with no catastrophe & the chances of something happening at this point may have seemed minimal, in the event that something did happen & members of the public were wounded or worse, the agencies would have been liable. Just a guess.
Considering the explosion lifted off the roof of the neighbours house that did seem to have boards over the windows that still shattered (poss from the roof lifting off then slamming back down) I think the explosion was far bigger than expected & plywood boarding over the glass wasn't sufficient!!!!
Reminds me of highschool chemistry, we had a teacher who was new to the school and after an earthquake he told us the chemical supply room was full of unlabeled bottles from the previous teacher and if there was another earthquake to just run.
I have a sister who worked for Lockheed - as a chemist specializing in propellants (propellants are explosives that don't burn as fast). She was at work when the Loma Pietra Earthquake hit San Francisco. She and the other people in the lab took off at a dead sprint. The other people in the building watched the chemists from a propellent laboratory leave the lab and run - so they didn't ask questions and ran.
Of course not, it was all done for kicks. Everyone knows dynamite only gets more stable with age....just like we all know the sky is mean white with noen jade polka dots...
What alternative did they have? Reading between the lines it was the over-age dynamite. Dynamite is nitroglycerine that is stabilized with an absorbent clay. As dynamite ages the nitroglycerine slowly leaks out and forms crystals on the outside. Would you have gone in to remove it yourself - knowing that act of picking it up could set it off?
@@colincampbell767 "Would you have gone in to remove it yourself - knowing that act of picking it up could set it off?" Picking it up? That stuff is so unstable that SNEEZING at it could set it off!
Actually - it is. She knew than he was keeping a buttload of hazardous materials and didn't do anything about it. The neighbors were lucky - hazardous chemicals plus aged and unstable dynamite are not something that you want somebody with Alzheimer's to be around.
@@colincampbell767 I agree. She could have put her foot down. It was her house too. If my husband was keeping dynamite, mercury, and radiological materials in the garage, I would pitch a fit until it was gone.
You know the insurance company is going to deny her claim, and rightfully so. She could actually be sued by the insurance companies that have losses from her neighbors claims.
I already know. To one side, marijuana grow op. To the other, lots of male "visitors" and "interesting" clothing deliveries (sometimes misdelivered to me).
So if this was a controlled explosion to detonate the sticks of dynamite that had deteriorated too much to be moved, and they were able to plan it in a way to get the neighborhood safely evacuated first, was she at least able to retrieve important things out of the house ahead of time? Yes, there was a danger that it could explode at any point, but that danger had probably already been there for years. Did they at least give her an hour or so to pack up important papers and photographs and some other belongings? Or am I misinterpreting the newscast when they say she has "lost everything" as a result of the explosion? Of course she's lost the house, appliances, furniture, etc. and that's going to be a huge burden, but I hope she was able to get important documents, memories and other valuable things out safely.
Just because a danger has been somewhere for years doesn’t mean that it still couldn’t go off at any second. Your responsibility for a situation begins when you become aware of it.
@@bcbock That's not what OP was saying; they were wondering if when the news said that she lost everything, if she also lost a few irreplaceable items; like, did they give her a few minutes to retrieve anything before restricting access & detonation.
NOT a hoarder, just a chemist that had all the necessary chemicals that he needed. how can you sit there and pass judgement by calling him a hoarder when you obviously have no clue about chemistry and what is involved....
@@orion7741 A former chemist with Alzheimer's. I don't understand why the wife didn't have the hazmat removed when it because unsafe for him to be around the stuff.
@@orion7741 If you have dynamite that is disintegrating and freaking radiological materials and mercury just laying around, you are a danger. He was a menace to his neighbors for having a toxic waste dump in his home.
Crystalline dynamite is VERY sensitive. Letting that happen risks something setting it off while she or someone else is inside. Personally I would have had the robot collect the small stuff but I understand why they didn't
Inconvenience? Not planned?she is sorry. This is very irresponsible of her. This is very irresponsible of her husband and her for allowing it. She's liable
Honestly he could have had a large collection of smoke detectors, they contain americium (radioactive element), or even coal ashes (they contain radioactive material too). Not to mention they didn’t say what type of radiation it was either, or how much there was. The dose makes the poison. And we’re constantly bombarded with natural radiation all the time, from natural geological processes to the sun.
Dynamite is totally safe if you know, what you are doing. A chemist would have no problem keeping it safe. The tragedy is that with Alzheimers, you don't realise what you have forgotten.
Hope this poor lady had home owners insurance and she gets help. She just lost her husband then she had her home blown up right after cleaning it. Talk about bad luck, then her first action is to apologize to her neighbors 😢
I doubt that the insurance is going to pay. They insured a home under the assumption that it would be used as a home and not as an unregulated laboratory.
@@serenadingstarz She wasn't even the one who stored the Dynamite, she didn't even know about it. It was her late husband, and was his responsibility not hers. It doesn't cost anything to be a considerate person. Vain people don't half to have ugly attitudes and personalities 🤷 just saying
@@mora103 i have a very, very hard time believing she had no idea that her mad scientist husband had liquid mercury, radioactive materials, and dynamite in their small, residential home. even if i did believe it, it's still negligence on her part for allowing him to have an amateur chemistry lab in, again, their RESIDENTIAL HOME, with zero safety precautions.
I hope not. Her inaction endangered all of her neighbors. Imagine how you’d feel if your neighbors did this very stupid and selfish thing. She was part owner of the property. She had some say about not storing dangerous things there, but she chose to go along with it.
Now with demolition and toxic clean up that the city will charge her in the millions she needs to skip town. At her age that house was most likely thing of value she owns.
Thank you. There was a lack of consideration for the safety of others in all this. I can accept not malicious but irresponsible and unethical, absolutely.
If the dynamite was in the home, I feel it should be included. If my oven explodes or a pipe burst in my home - insurance would still cover damages regardless of the fact I bought the oven and updated the plumbing.
Absolutely not. This lady isn’t getting a penny from the insurance. You can’t claim things if negligence is found to be the cause. Super sad too. All she has now is the value of the land which will very likely be wiped out by cleanup costs, the cost of damage to neighbors property, the cost associated with bringing in the bomb crew (effectively charging her to blow up the house) as well as fire department charges, fines from the city and possibly even state.
They don't need apologies, they need restitutiion. Don't store dangerous chemicals in the house. I have compassion for her, but the main issue is residential homes shouldn't be a place for doing "experiments" with dangerous substances like mercury, dynamite and whatever else was there. There is a reason professionals use labs for chemicals. Get a hobby that doesn't put you, your famiky or your neighbors in peril. 💀
Who brings all this home and puts his family’s lives at risk. Collecting for decades! Is she homeless now until she moves to her daughters home? What are some of those chemicals bleached into the soil and water and everything putting the neighbors at risk? This is insane.
Why did she tolerate him having this stuff in and around her home? He hasnt ALWAYS had dementia. It took powerful willful closing of her eyes and mind to allow him to do this FOR YEARS. I feel she is also culpable.
I wonder what this homeowner thought after she called the cops to try to safely dispose of the dynamite and when she heard this is the solution they came up with what to blow up her house
She called about a mercury spill. When the hazmat crews got there, they saw all of the other hazardous chemicals and radioactive materials. While clearing out the hazmat they discovered the unstable dynamite and evacuated the building. There is no 'safe' way to move unstable dynamite.
Funny it should fall tp the city and not the homes insurance or owner. As sad as it is her and they gathered an ampunt of chemicals alone that should have never been in a residential area like that, let alone tnt from multiple decades ago.
Old dynamite is unstable but as I understand it it can be immersed in diesel fuel instead of blown up but I am also sure the hazmat crews know that. It was the fire marshal that made the call no doubt. These folks from the 50's did a lot of sketchy stuff in homes and garages that nobody today would ever do ( we hope)
@@jessicabixler1658 We assume it's a plastic tub of some sort, I doubt just pouring it on is even a thing. Nitro is basically an oil so I guess the theory is it will dissolve in kero or diesel.
It’s a shame that things had to end the way they did. Unfortunately there’s nothing else that can be done when dealing with such unstable stuff. Old dynamite like that can go off just from sneezing at it. Hopefully she can get back on her feet.
How? She's not a chemist. Though she probably knew, but she didn't know how to properly handle and dispose of it because the chemist in the family is no longer in his right mind.
There's some questions I'dblove to have answers to. Like why did they hurry up and remove acids and bases, and well the mercury but left the old unstable dynomite.
But what about all the mercury if he was building his own mercury thermometers did they find all that or did they just blow it up into the air and contaminate the whole area?
Well, apparently, they had enough time to clear out some of the hazard material why she get some of her neighbors to try to help her clear out some of her personal stuff why they were trying to clear out all the hazardous stuff
Concerned for the neighbors? It's her fault!!! The city, and the home owner need to pay for the damage and cost for relocation for the neighbors... this is exactly why you shouldn't be allowed to have all those chemicals and especially old dynamite in your home..
There is something else going on in all this. Anyone who would hoard all that and have no regard for the community was involved in deep state or high level government activity.
Did they blow all the chemicals and explosives after calling the Norfolk Southern Railroad Company response team as they did in East Palestine , Ohio during a derailment ?
So many things might be considered radioactive today that were common in the past: Old style Colman lantern mantles, old instruments, old lenses, even some plates etc. really need to know what he had to understand the threat level.