Holladay homeowner apologizes to neighbors for home explosion
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- The Holladay homeowner where dynamite was detonated Wednesday morning is apologizing to neighbors for the damage to their homes and disruption to their lives.
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So they removed all THEY wanted too but wouldn't allow the homeowners to remove any personal property or items before destroying it all?
That’s not how it went down. They were removing stuff and cleared the neighborhood and house as soon as they discovered the dynamite.
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..
@@LoriL010 That's ignorant as heck.
@@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.
@@LoriL010 - you talking about my comment? Not agreeing with the other guy but that’s not at all the same explanation or principal
He must have been a fascinating man! I’m sorry for your loss ma’am.
He was a careless and irresponsible imbecile.
@@Fred-mp1vf The two aren't mutually exclusive.
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.
@@thefourhorsemen91 Thats what i was thinking, he must have been a muppet long before his illness took over!!
@@thefourhorsemen91 And radiological material too. Insane that his house was essentially toxic waste dump.
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.
That's going to be an interesting conversation with their insurance company.
Probably not much of an issue. Dynamite was the issue, not the chems most looked to be stored in acid resistant and corrosion resistant containers.
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.
@@TurquoiseInk I agree!
She was sure smiling while she "apologized"
Really? You think her apology was sufficient for the enormous danger they faced?
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.
I am glad she apologized for the damages, that’s kind.
*Let’s stop donating dynamite to others, especially the elderly*
Nice lady to lose so much, and still be thinking of her neighbors.
Poor woman, what a terrible tragedy! The loss of her husband and the loss of her home!😢🙏
I'm more concerned with the people who's homes were damaged, and the family that was left homeless.
@@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.😳
Dynamite that was passed down to him? Who was his grandfather? Yosemite Sam?
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.
@@Sylvan_dBAnd population density has changed. 🤷🏻♂️
Any farmer. Blowing stumps was a common practice.
@Sylvan_dB you could buy it 30 years ago all day long
You win the internet today 😂😂😂
No way insurance is going to cover that. This woman will be absolutely ruined because of her husband’s irresponsibility.
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!!!!
dementia and dynamite rarely go together well. But apology accepted.
Don't they have ways of safely detonating that stuff without damaging any homes including the house where it was stored 🤔
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
Such a catastrophic event, yet the homeowner and neighbors interviewed could not be kinder nor more considerate of one another.
OMG !!!! This poor woman. God bless you and yours. Stay safe.
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 😂
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.
What a sham ……was this really necessary to blow up this woman’s home ? 😢
Yes it was.
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 a lovely woman. Don’t give up, sweetheart.
Dynamite ! Who keeps dynamite in a residential home? Mercury too! Irresponsible!
Not to mention radiological material.
If the dynamite had crystalized then removal was impossible and they had to detonate it in place.
Thanks for the info Mr Factoid! 🦸♂️
@@HiThisIsMine Your welcome Dr Sarcasm.
@@ImprovmanZero woah, cloaking capabilities too!
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 don't understand why she wasn't able to take her belongings from the home beforehand- unless the spilled mercury, etc made it unsafe.
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.
She was. You need to watch and read other reports.
How sad for her. She didn’t know, and to lose her husband in January. Bless her.
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.
This is such a sad story. Older people always fascinate me and im sure he wqs no exception!
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???
Yes, let's move hazardous chemicals in a place that has unstable dynamite in it. What could possibly go wrong?
I cant believe they blew her house up
There was no choice
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?
@SamIAm-uk1pp The OP thinks that they shouldn't have detonated the stuff in place.
If they attempted to move the dynamite it could have exploded possibly killing others . it was safer to have a controlled explosion
OP is lacking a great deal of knowledge
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 hope she is sued. the negligence on her end is shocking.
Question for the day: What's in my neighbors house?
Right! I live next to an older woman & grown daughter & the amount of trash/garbage they through out twice a week is disturbing!
I already know. To one side, marijuana grow op. To the other, lots of male "visitors" and "interesting" clothing deliveries (sometimes misdelivered to me).
You don’t want to know. I’ve flipped a number of “problem” houses over the years and the inside was often terrifying.
So you actually spy on their trash?
@@eileenmcdonald1599 It isn't hard to see how many bags/barrels of rubbish are placed by the road each week.
Poor Lady! Prayers for you. ❤🙏
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.
@@bcbockThere was no question of responsibility.
@@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.
He was a different kind of hoarder! He was a hoarder of dangerous things!
very few chemicals are dangerous- if you know how to handle them.
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.
Don't understand why many of you are clueless
Oh that...that's just my family heirloom...DYNAMITE!!
Wow, imagine being told they have to detonate your house. Thus was quite the story.
This was not her fault. So sad for her. 😢😢
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.
Actually no. It was not
Clearly she was aware he was storing old dynamite because she explained the story about how he acquired it.
@@eileenmcdonald1599 Totally her fault. She knew stuff was down there. If you know of hazardous material and do nothing, you are liable.
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.
Why did they have to blow up her house?? Would be nice to have more information on that from the news station...incomplete reporting
You simply did not pay attention...that's the problem with our society....no one listens. You are a part of the problem
I imagine they didn’t want the liability of allowing her to spend one second in that volatile environment.
...radioactive materials.
They skipped over that real fast.
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.
Why didn't they allow her to take her items out of her home? Are they going to help her out? This should have been treated differently.
Ya, it seems like a lame excuse. Probably red tape and other nonsense.
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
@@ImprovmanZero you can soak it for a few hours in diesel fuel to desensitize it.
It mightve, been the radioactivity. Just maybe.
@@fastst1 Really? I never heard of that
So detonating the house therefore blowing it all over the surrounding homes sounds like a really good idea?
I wondered why they didnt just remove it
I wouldn't describe as a good idea. I would describe it as the 'least bad option.' What do you think they are going to do with unstable dynamite?
Because it could have gone off killing someone. Old dynamite becomes very unstable
And now Mercury, the 2nd most toxic metal known to man, is spread ALL OVER the entire suburb poisoning everybody, and now impossible to clean up.
@@colincampbell767That was sarcasm.
"We're The Government And We're Here To Help"
she is screwed ! big time... not only has she lost everything they will send her a multi million dollar hazmat clean up bill.
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.
'sorry for the inconvenience' is not a proper apology. this lady doesn't deserve anything.
@@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.
@@serenadingstarz well that's one opinion. I personally don't tell my old lady about every project I have going on 🤷
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. 💀
I may be wrong but I do believe they said he had dementia. Who knows when it started.
They were in the house for over 50 years, it's likely that he didn't have neighbors to blow up at the time.
Well Terry, YOU OWE YOUR NEIGHBORS a new home and expenses. Apology is hollow until your insurance policy pays out.
WHAT A MESS!
So Dangerous
She and the ppl who blew up the home need to be sued
Awesome story
Why would that guy even bring dynamite into his house anyways hahaha being a chemist he should know!
Chemists are mad scientists
Some scientists certainly seem to fit the "mad" label lol.
But it was safer to detonate the subdivision? This is insane
@@noneyun9943There was crystallized nitroglycerin leaking from sticks of dynamite, you're not moving that stuff without it moving you. In many pieces.
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.
This is unreal. I can't believe they blew her house up.
Would you have gone in there to clear out the unstable dynamite that could explode if you have it a dirty look?
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.
Just Imagine if there was a fire!
Guess they didn't want to desensitize it with a diesel fuel bath.
Not worth the risk to the person who would have to do it. And all it would take is one crystal that didn't get saturated . . .
@@colincampbell767 I'll certainly defer to the tech on site 100% they're the one tickling the dragon.
Wow.
What is The U?
University of Utah
Take a guess!
I would blame whoever decided to blow up her house rather than just removing the stuff. They should be apologizing, not her.
And you would be blaming the wrong person. It's 2024 you are obviously connected to the internet so research what happens to dynamite as it ages.
Why were they searching her house in the first place? (Although they clearly had good reason in the end)
She found spilled mercury and called Hazmat for help. They came to clean it up and found the rest.
Why didn't they clear the sight and the neighborhood, too?
Wow. That’s one person out of….. oh gosh how many elderly have things like this. Or just people in general. Wow.
I hope the city will help this lady.
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.
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.
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)
How much was there and pouring diesel into a basement that may not be in any way sealed....
@@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.
You have to pick it up in order to do that. And picking it up can cause it to detonate.
@@jeffhays1968 it had been in the house for 50 years so I would expect it to be in a wood crate or metal box.
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.
Can you still claim homeowners insurance if you hauled the dynamite there??
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.
@@lianegiago5443 Ummm...that's a little different scenario.
That's a very good question. And, my guess would be no, especially if he didn't have a federal license to transport and store it.
Of course not! You'd be arrested.
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.
. The house that exploded was supposed to be a controlled demolition. Crystalized dynamite was discovered in the basement, and it was extremely unstable, and unable to be moved. The house was a ticking time bomb, so they had to evacuate the neighborhood and ignite the dynamite.
There are other ways to remove old dynamite rather than ruining the house and the houses/property around it.
Why didn’t they just remove the dynamite from the home? Why did they need to blow it up?
Oh my, poor woman. Good of her to think of her neighbors and apologize. Hoarding gone wrong
Professor? Dynamite? Common Sense?
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.
Alzheimer's and hazardous chemicals are what got my attention.
Wacky Professor types don't have common sense.
@@colincampbell767 Radiation caught my ear.
Think about how many Vietnam era hand grenades are in basements and garages.
Who did the hazard assessment? Tetra Tech? Sho made the call to detonate the dynamite?
What's he building in there?
"Im from the gvmt and I'm here to help!"
💥
She needs to sue for gross negligence on the city how they handled this massive lawsuit is pending. Just wait.
yikes
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.
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..
So she is out of a house too.
At that age, What a terrible situation
I would want my homeowners insurance to pay for it not the taxe payers and not the poor lady who inherited that problem.
OMGOSH, poor widow , she has nowhere to live ? Hopefully, the government can help her
She should consult a explosives specialist/contractor. Dynamite does NOT sweat nitroglycerin in the manner of what the fire chief explained. That is a myth, even purified nitro does not detonate like in the movies
Well it's a little late for her to get a second opinion now. 😂
@@CognitiveHeatsink 😂🤣😂🤣 until the city pays for her replacement
😢😢So if I find old dynamite in my 1939 house, I will move everything out before I tell anyone. It also sounds like they didn’t move enough. They also failed to put up barriers between the properties beforehand and warn neighbors. No experts to determine how big an explosion to expect??????
OK if the EPA has time to move so much before the detonation, neighbors had time to make their preparations
Inconvenience?
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?
Poor lady. Imagine the call to the insurance company.
Don't we have robots that can move the dynamite to a containment truck?
Acids, bases, solvents... Are they going to raid my refrigerator and under-sink cabinet next?
I don't understand why they didn't use a blast box... so sad they chose to destroy this lady's home. It does seem she's wanting to move on though.
The people who detonated the stuff are total idiots this was the most irresponsible thing ever now costic chemicals have been spread all over the town but all of the neighbors should be getting their yards tested for poisonous chemicals and deadly pathogens ill bet you that they would be stripping off the top four feet of soil and tearing down houses 5 deep in every direction
let me get this right you found some very bad stuff at their house and you took a lot of bad stuff out of the home and left a lot of bad stuff like radioactive materials blew up the house and then came back for the radioactive materials that literally took the roof off someone's house and dropped it back down. And all of this was in your safety protocols? I think that these neighbors are going to have more than foundational issues to be concerned about
An apology? Hopefully her insurance is paid up because alot of homes were damaged because of her and her husband being irresponsible. She's going to be sued into bankruptcy, and it's deserved. When your spouse has dementia, you need to step up and take care of things.
What a total nut case this guy was---you don't do scientific experiments or anything else with explosives in a residential area, uncontrolled, putting your neighbors at risk. He didn't have dementia when he decided to "collect" all this stuff---illegally, I am sure. And the wife surely knew that he was storing dangerous chemicals & also did nothing. Got no sympathy for either of them, they could have killed/injured so many people. They ended up with a lot less severe consequences than they deserved. At least he is gone & can't go do this again.
This was poorly planned. I wonder how many subject matter experts were on hand, how many meetings they had.
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
0:20 He was a retired chemist who knew nothing about dangerous explosives, or didn't care; storing them in his house and endangerig his family & others. Inexcusable!
Once dynamite sweats it becomes too unstable to move.
acids, bases, and solvents y'all act like those things aren't in just about every garage or shop...lol
But what isn’t in every shop is dynamite.
Yes that stuff is in garages. But not reagent-grade chemicals.
I have no radiological material, mercury, nor dynamite in my garage. Some bug spray. Some lawn chemicals and cleaning chemicals. But all in their original bottles and not deteriorating into a frigging time bomb.
A bulldozer was not an option?
Why did the detonate it!? Just remove it. This is FISHY!!???