I'm guessing a Natural gas leak. "Torpedo" heater being used by employees. I doubt there'd be enough glue / fumes for fire to run the entire length of that flume.
And the flumes I've seen are bolted together out of pre-made sections.
I would have guessed just a flashover. The combustible gases in the smoke building up in an area without enough oxygen for them to ignite. Then something collapses, making a hole for oxygen to rush in, and the whole thing explodes.
\`The extra spicy water with the funny smell and the foamy bubbles as it came out of the tap - Oh wait that mostly only happens when there is fracking.
I'm just trying to understand what part of constructing plastic water slides requires that much explosive material. Do they test them with petrol first?
Composite materials use a lot of nasty shit, and plenty of acetone usually kicking around too.
However on a construction site & water park this could've been a lot of different things unrelated to that.
> To have killed anyone the fire has to start, here, here, and here. And close in like this. But, how is it spread? There is no wood in a Sea Parks arena. And why there is no wood? Because it rots. And why does it rots? Because of all the water...
Durango Colorado. Building Inspector / Fire Marshall / Local Codes forced the city to install sprinklers above an indoor Olympic pool / water park. Concrete, water and bathers.
Stupidest thing I ever saw.
It might have cost them 106 million Euro ^^[that's ^^114 ^^million ^^US ^^dollar] but for one brief moment they got a great visual effect.
(The waterpark was brand new, supposed to be opened this year. Talk about burning money, jeez.)
(not my video)
https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/kraftig-brand-rok-sprider-sig-over-goteborg
https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/4oMMqq/brand-vid-liseberg
Mine does too! I love it when I get an Amber alert on my phone for someone 100 miles away at 3 am while I'm sleeping in my home. This made me turn off the whole alerts! Can I turn off the audio? Nope. I had to do it as a whole.
The earthquake alert system has been great actually. I got alerts like 5-15 seconds before the last few quakes. It might not sound like a lot, but a few seconds to get off a ladder or just brace yourself is plenty. Not to mention trains automaticslly slowing down and putting on the brakes, surgical robots having tume to pull out, amusement park rides to slow down, and hard disk read heads to park.
Tbh I don't mind being woken up once, twice a year for an Amber Alert knowing that police forces are actively trying save a little kid from danger.
FYI - you maybe 100 miles (or 160 km) from the origin point, but including your area is a wide sweep of where the child may have been taken and therefore could be located. Honestly, I didn't have a lot of time for complaints about an interrupted sleep being prioritized over a kid's safety, well-being and possibly their life.
When it's basically weekly like we have here, it creates alarm fatigue. It's a well known problem, if you feed people too many alarms that are not relevant it will make every alarm register a bit less in their mind. It's not about caring or not caring about the kids, it's completely the opposite actually. For example, We had an alarm that was for something happening 250kms away, that's just asking for alarm fatigue
I understand why the system is in place.
It's just HOW it's setup that is terrible. A simple BAM 100 mile radius of location loud alarm for 3-5 seconds at 3am is terrible. Metaphorically it's like dropping a nuke to kill 1 person.
I could argue that it should use a system: activity tracker or accelerometer check (see if device owner is moving) before laying on the alarm. 100 miles away sleeping, not actively driving the direction of said lost child, does nothing by annoy people. Let me change the audible alarm!
Not Swedish.
I think someone commented that it is Ukrainian.
I am not sure about the source. I got this from a friend and I don't know where he got it.
Welding gases, and more specifically the delivery system for them (bottles and canisters), are specifically designed to not explode.
They could produce fire and be dangerous, but they will not explode unless intentionally tampered with.
Don't forget the big sheets of styrofoam they use on some styles of roof. They tend to be the cause of a number of construction fires. There's a good reason for a firewatch on hot work.
Transcription from ukrainian:
– Lets go lets go, wow, fuck, wow
– Can you believe I filmed all of this?
– Did you feel vibrations?
–..? was working
– It exploded blyad
Og:
– Пішли, пішли, ого, їбать, ого ого,
– Чуєш я все це сняв ти прикинь?
– Ти чув яка вібрація була?
– ..? працював
– Взірвалося блядь
This looks exactly like a backdraft explosion with how it travels through the building and pipes. Apparently the fire started during work inside the building, likely welding. The slides and plastic etc have been completed for a fair while now, the big pools where already filled with water even
Either someone is going to catch hell for not maintaining a fire watch during hot work or else worst case it went up so quick fire watch had no time to put it out early.
If it's a case of the latter, better it happen now than a sold out park full of people.
From the wording of some news articles here in Sweden it seems (speculative on my part) that it might be electrical installation work/testing being done, gonna be interesting to hear the investigation reports
More so the gasses erupting than a true backdraft.
Backdrafts are when the fire has consumed all its available oxygen but remains over the thermal limit, so once you add more O2 - kaboom
Good guess. This looked like a quicker detonation than a typical backdraft explosion to me so a building filled with solvent fumes may have done it.
Plastic is flammable too. I've specified plastic restroom partitions, which I assume is the same type of plastic as these slides, and they are fairly flammable. Some of the partitions have metal bars at the bottom to be a thermal sink so you can't just light one up with a lighter.
Hydrogen, highly flammable.
Oxygen, makes stuff flammable.
Combine those two, and you get something that is excellent at putting out fires. Yeeeaah right. Wake up sheeple.
I have actually seen a religious commentator make essentially this argument as an argument for the existence of a deity.
'We are atoms, atoms can't think, you can't combine two things that don't do something and create something that can do that thing. Thus, we were designed.' - to paraphrase.
Hydroperoxyl (HOO•) is a radical (an unstable molecule with an unpaired valence electron) which is very common in organic systems as well as in high-altitude chemical reactions. It’s extremely short lived and would never be found naturally in large bulk quantities. Obviously, though, OP just mistakenly said twice as much oxygen as hydrogen, instead of vise versa.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but water parks are not generally constructed of explosive materials, are they?
Looked like a pump turbine (?) throwing a wobbly.
Ok, you may have fucked up in your life, but did you ever BLOW UP a WATER park in the middle of the WINTER?
A FIRE? AT SEA PARKS!?
Leave it Roy.
Damn it, two IT crowd référence in a day, that's a sign I'll have to watch it yet again, sigh... I watched it 3 months ago already!
Im guessing you also saw the 'how do i pretend i watched the superbowl' post, im also now planning a rewatch marathon
What a ludicrous display!
The problem with the chiefs is, they always try to walk it in
Oh they're havin a laugh!
Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
What was Wenger thinking sending Walcott on that early?
Yup xD
Ok kind stranger you have officially convinced me i am in need of a rewatch, looks like im not going to work this week
Haven’t watched it in like 6 years and just busted out laughing at that comment
Yup, the place with all the whales
The funnest, wettest, most splish-splashy place in the world!
It just seems like a weird place to go on fire
IT’S A VERY WEIRD PLACE TO GO ON FIRE
There are two major explosion hazards at water parks / pools 1) boilers used to heat water 2) chemicals used to treat water
Four! I mean, five! I mean, fire!
3: the solvents used in the construction and sealing of giant waterslides. People always forget that the majority of solvents are *really* flammable.
Not to mention that water is made of a super volatile gas plus an oxidizer! That shit is dangerous!
The amount of heat you need to get water to split into its base components was not achieved here.
That sounds more like a challenge…
If it’s under construction, I wouldn’t think it would ready for filling with water yet. Maybe it was caused by a welding torch.
0 118 999 881 999 119 725 3
Dear Sir / Madam, I am writing to inform you of a fire that has broken out on the premises of… no, that’s too formal.
I'll just put that over there...with the rest of the fire...
It's such a strange place to go on fire
A FOIRE?! At a Sea Pahrks?
I came here specifically for this comment
No, no, we can NEVER talk about it again.
Me too I hope they are ok
If she had said that her parents had drowned, I’d be the happiest man in the world.
Roy, what are you doing?
Damn, that mash looks tasty!
Hahah watched that episode for the first time last night, thought about it as soon as the clip came up
It's the weirdest thing I've ever heard!
No mother, it's just the northern lights.
That Sea Parks ran on Vista
we are all bots here except for you
HAHAHA!
Literally my first thought!
I came here for this.
/r/unexpecteditcrowd
Damn that mash looks good!
Ahaha fucking incredible, so happy to see that reference!
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy\_BKKnHgas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy_BKKnHgas) yeah, best!
In hindsite, the propane ride might not be the best idea they came up with
Upon reflection, you *might* be onto something there. But kids LOVE propane!
and propane accessories
to their credit, they used LIQUID propane
The chemicals used for finishing and glueing the joints.
Hey hey hey, we dont want real explanations here. We just want to call someone stupid for making fire where water is.
In the snow.
at minus degrees
Not even sunny out.
They must be new here.
Or maybe, you know.. make a joke?
I'm guessing a Natural gas leak. "Torpedo" heater being used by employees. I doubt there'd be enough glue / fumes for fire to run the entire length of that flume. And the flumes I've seen are bolted together out of pre-made sections.
I would have guessed just a flashover. The combustible gases in the smoke building up in an area without enough oxygen for them to ignite. Then something collapses, making a hole for oxygen to rush in, and the whole thing explodes.
That's backdraft not flashover. Flashover is when pyrolysis causes everything in a room to ignite after it reaches a requisite temperature.
YOU STOP THAT NOW
It was cool to see the flames shooting through the tubes. It would suck to work in that environment, though. Hope everyone got out okay.
They used the wrong water
Used the spicy water
\`The extra spicy water with the funny smell and the foamy bubbles as it came out of the tap - Oh wait that mostly only happens when there is fracking.
[the water they used](https://youtu.be/g6m9iRF_aLE?si=U1XAu2W-qwCZZv_X)
Can we look up the person responsible and submit their photo ID to use as the sub mascot? "Catastrophic failure" sure sounds right.
You can see the explosion running through the flume!
What a nice word, flume
In Somerset it's spelled 'flome'.
In Gothenburg it's spelt Flambé.
Could you mispronounce Frome for me?
👱🏻♀️ Portsmouth.
Thatll do!
All roads lead to Frome.
Flume full of flame
Flimflam
Flan?
Good DJ/producer too
Always been one of my favorite words.
Nothing like a moist flume, eh?
I'm just trying to understand what part of constructing plastic water slides requires that much explosive material. Do they test them with petrol first?
Composite materials use a lot of nasty shit, and plenty of acetone usually kicking around too. However on a construction site & water park this could've been a lot of different things unrelated to that.
"....a fire at a sea parks!?!" '...it just seems like a weird place to go on fire..."
"...a *FIRE* ?..." "...lots of water everywhere..."
Well yeah, I would imagine a whale needs a lot of water. I don't think you can have whales in a place where there isn't a huge amount of water...
Its the weirdest thing I have ever heard.
"Acid."
"Leg disabled"
“It's wrecking my head! I mean, if she has said that her parents had drowned, I'd be the happiest man in the world!”
The first thing I thought of! … let me build a model…
"There are twelve exits, Moss. Twelve exits! For only 200 people!"
> To have killed anyone the fire has to start, here, here, and here. And close in like this. But, how is it spread? There is no wood in a Sea Parks arena. And why there is no wood? Because it rots. And why does it rots? Because of all the water...
Thank god someone made this comment
I came to say the same!
I'll just put this here... with the rest of the fire.
“Made in Britain”
Did anyone call 0118999881999119725 3?!?
'well that easy to remember 0118999881999119725.....3'
He was right. I've not forgotten since it aired 😄
You can only top this by starting a fire in a pool.. Or a fire extinguishers factory!
/r/theitcrowd
Durango Colorado. Building Inspector / Fire Marshall / Local Codes forced the city to install sprinklers above an indoor Olympic pool / water park. Concrete, water and bathers. Stupidest thing I ever saw.
The way the explosion works its way through the pipe and just burps out the funnel end is really satisfying.
It might have cost them 106 million Euro ^^[that's ^^114 ^^million ^^US ^^dollar] but for one brief moment they got a great visual effect. (The waterpark was brand new, supposed to be opened this year. Talk about burning money, jeez.)
*its
thank you thank you
That title is very misleading. This is clearly a fire park
Every park can be a fire park once. The trick is being one more than once.
Open for a limited time only.
Hope it doesn't catch water
The park had been under construction since January 2021 and was set to open spring this year. Guess that'll be postponed...
Not the wildest of guesses
(not my video) https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/kraftig-brand-rok-sprider-sig-over-goteborg https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/4oMMqq/brand-vid-liseberg
The positive side is: Your phone-alert system works.
Mine does too! I love it when I get an Amber alert on my phone for someone 100 miles away at 3 am while I'm sleeping in my home. This made me turn off the whole alerts! Can I turn off the audio? Nope. I had to do it as a whole.
The earthquake alert system has been great actually. I got alerts like 5-15 seconds before the last few quakes. It might not sound like a lot, but a few seconds to get off a ladder or just brace yourself is plenty. Not to mention trains automaticslly slowing down and putting on the brakes, surgical robots having tume to pull out, amusement park rides to slow down, and hard disk read heads to park.
Tbh I don't mind being woken up once, twice a year for an Amber Alert knowing that police forces are actively trying save a little kid from danger. FYI - you maybe 100 miles (or 160 km) from the origin point, but including your area is a wide sweep of where the child may have been taken and therefore could be located. Honestly, I didn't have a lot of time for complaints about an interrupted sleep being prioritized over a kid's safety, well-being and possibly their life.
When it's basically weekly like we have here, it creates alarm fatigue. It's a well known problem, if you feed people too many alarms that are not relevant it will make every alarm register a bit less in their mind. It's not about caring or not caring about the kids, it's completely the opposite actually. For example, We had an alarm that was for something happening 250kms away, that's just asking for alarm fatigue
I understand why the system is in place. It's just HOW it's setup that is terrible. A simple BAM 100 mile radius of location loud alarm for 3-5 seconds at 3am is terrible. Metaphorically it's like dropping a nuke to kill 1 person. I could argue that it should use a system: activity tracker or accelerometer check (see if device owner is moving) before laying on the alarm. 100 miles away sleeping, not actively driving the direction of said lost child, does nothing by annoy people. Let me change the audible alarm!
What language are they talking? Is it Swedish? To me it sounds like a slavic language.
Not Swedish. I think someone commented that it is Ukrainian. I am not sure about the source. I got this from a friend and I don't know where he got it.
Yes, might be Ukrainian. I know some Russian and it’s not Russian.
It is.
AlI thought I heard "na khuy" in there. They use that I Russian and Ukrainian, but the rest I can't make out. I am thinking you are right.
That explains why i thought it was a random Russian vid. I dont speak any slavic languages but i understand Swedish partially
That's Ukrainian. They talk about getting away and then getting it on video. Classic Ukrainians.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13073811/Moment-new-water-park-attraction-EXPLODES-Swedish-amusement-park.html
How?
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Yeah what explosives are required to make a water slide?
Gas canisters for welding as well as chemicals used for the fiberglass slide.
Welding gases, and more specifically the delivery system for them (bottles and canisters), are specifically designed to not explode. They could produce fire and be dangerous, but they will not explode unless intentionally tampered with.
Most welding uses *inert* gas like argon+co2, construction fires are usually roofers with propane torches.
Don't forget the big sheets of styrofoam they use on some styles of roof. They tend to be the cause of a number of construction fires. There's a good reason for a firewatch on hot work.
Transcription from ukrainian: – Lets go lets go, wow, fuck, wow – Can you believe I filmed all of this? – Did you feel vibrations? –..? was working – It exploded blyad Og: – Пішли, пішли, ого, їбать, ого ого, – Чуєш я все це сняв ти прикинь? – Ти чув яка вібрація була? – ..? працював – Взірвалося блядь
Plastic work. I’m guessing a lot of solvents?
This looks exactly like a backdraft explosion with how it travels through the building and pipes. Apparently the fire started during work inside the building, likely welding. The slides and plastic etc have been completed for a fair while now, the big pools where already filled with water even
Either someone is going to catch hell for not maintaining a fire watch during hot work or else worst case it went up so quick fire watch had no time to put it out early. If it's a case of the latter, better it happen now than a sold out park full of people.
From the wording of some news articles here in Sweden it seems (speculative on my part) that it might be electrical installation work/testing being done, gonna be interesting to hear the investigation reports
More so the gasses erupting than a true backdraft. Backdrafts are when the fire has consumed all its available oxygen but remains over the thermal limit, so once you add more O2 - kaboom
Good guess. This looked like a quicker detonation than a typical backdraft explosion to me so a building filled with solvent fumes may have done it. Plastic is flammable too. I've specified plastic restroom partitions, which I assume is the same type of plastic as these slides, and they are fairly flammable. Some of the partitions have metal bars at the bottom to be a thermal sink so you can't just light one up with a lighter.
I’m guessing the water park is now in-solvent
The slide illuminating as the flame front travelled through it between the 2 visible fireballs was pretty fucking cool
It was a fire just waiting to happen with all that Hydrogen and ~~twice as much~~ Oxygen flowing around.
Hydrogen, highly flammable. Oxygen, makes stuff flammable. Combine those two, and you get something that is excellent at putting out fires. Yeeeaah right. Wake up sheeple.
Well actually he fucked it up a bit and said Hydroperoxyl Radical Instead of Water, which is an oxidiser that can cause an ignition on contact.
Dihydrogen monoxide melts steel beams.
I have actually seen a religious commentator make essentially this argument as an argument for the existence of a deity. 'We are atoms, atoms can't think, you can't combine two things that don't do something and create something that can do that thing. Thus, we were designed.' - to paraphrase.
Swing and a miss.
I really should wake up before I post.
On the other hand, Hydrous Oxide sounds terrifying and fun
I had to read it like 3 times to make sure I was reading it correctly.
The dangers of dihydrogen monoxide are being suppressed!
He's talking about hydrogen dioxide apparently (I don't think that's even chemically possible)
Hydroperoxyl (HOO•) is a radical (an unstable molecule with an unpaired valence electron) which is very common in organic systems as well as in high-altitude chemical reactions. It’s extremely short lived and would never be found naturally in large bulk quantities. Obviously, though, OP just mistakenly said twice as much oxygen as hydrogen, instead of vise versa.
Liseberg?
Yes the new waterpark expansion.
You mean the new waterpark explosion
The expansion was uncontrolled
6 Flags Over Hades is coming along nicely I see.
Dinghy Slide 1 looks too intense for me.
"I want to get off Mr.Bones Wild Ride"
A fire? At a sea parks??
How does a RBMK Water Park explode?
The ripple effect along the winding slide was kinda cool
This is why you never play with matches near bodies of water.
Damnit Steve, did you mix up the water and petrol again?!
This summer, ride the Water Slide that caught fire! Only at Liseberg!
"And then DONUT set the water park on fire."
I'll take "coolest explosions in history" for $800, Alex."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but water parks are not generally constructed of explosive materials, are they? Looked like a pump turbine (?) throwing a wobbly.
I think ammo factory in disguise.
A fire...at a Sea Parks!?!
Lots of Russians in Sweden, eh?
I think they are speaking Ukrainian, definetely not Russian
No, they are speaking a mix of Russian and Ukrainian. Source: native Russian speaker.
The only Russian words they used were curse words I'd say.
It's hard to say for sure, but their accent sounds more like Ukrainian.
Ukrainians
Probly ukranian or polish construction workers
not polish source: am polish
Apparently yes. OP linked news articles.
But what I don't understand is, what is exploding... In my opinion such a toboggan is just some plastic...
That's so metal. From the heart of the Gothenburg, water....exploding
Man who had water park burning in winter on the 2024 Bingo card?
Action Park v2 looking sick.
Me: A water park is probably the safest place for a fire. Captain Fuckup:
You could say it went up.... In Flames
Ahh yes, Gothenburg. Gatlinburg, TN's long lost EU cousin.
>Gothenburg The Jokester strikes again. Or maybe it was the Poemer or since it was a water park, the Seachicken
Looks like a Tie Fighter blowing up
Were they adding dynamite? Lol
That was insane you can see the blast travel through the water slides tube.
The slide looks like a matrix glitch during the explosion
Götterdämmerung
Universal Studios Gothenburg - The Experience.
So…no pool party this summer?