They Told Them It Was Just A Fire - 29 Women Killed in Explosion
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They Told Them It Was Just A Fire - 29 Women Killed in Explosion
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They believed it was a manageable fire and stood outside watching the building burn - until a pressure wave hurled bodies 400 feet and rattled windows 11 miles away. The Army had reclassified the material as Class Seven explosives 14 weeks earlier, but that order never reached the plant; how did five tons of processed magnesium and 56,322 tripflares become a bomb without anyone knowing?
In this episode, you’ll hear the sequence of events on a February Wednesday when Building M-132 vanished, the safety gaps at a remote Thiokol Chemical plant, and the aftermath for the families who survived - could a single missed memo explain 29 deaths?
Person: 29 workers (mostly Black women)
Date: February 3, 1971
Location: Thiokol Chemical complex, Camden County, Georgia
Event: Explosion/Detonation at Building M-132
Material: nearly 5 tons processed magnesium and 56,322 tripflares
- The pressure wave was felt 50 miles away and threw human bodies up to 400 feet.
- Windows were rattled 11 miles from the site by the blast.
- The Army reclassified the material as Class Seven on October 29, 1970, 14 weeks before the explosion.
- Building M-132 held nearly five tons of processed magnesium plus 56,322 assembled tripflares on the morning of the blast.
- Thirty-nine minutes? No - 3 to 4 minutes elapsed between the initial fire and full evacuation; everyone was outside when the building detonated.
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