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- čas přidán 30. 11. 2020
- "On the 11th of July 1978, a fully-loaded tanker truck left a state-owned refinery in a small town in the autonomous Catalonian region of Spain..."
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"If you think safety's expensive, try an accident" - Stelios Haji-Ioannou
Sadly the price of safety and price of accident is usually not paid by the same people
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!
"Forgiveness is divine, but never pay full price for late pizza."
- Michelangelo
It’s good to save money over safety. Sacrifices must be made so the rich can stay wealthy
@@Bradmhj That nonsense is very old and tired.
This is why regulations and regular maintenance checks are vital for these trucks. Nearly 300 people died for shoddy practice and company incompetence
"But muh profits. The economy would have been destroyed, if those people didn't die!"
More peolpe would have died from the bad economy
@@bl1398 Ah yes, if the regulations would have been stronger -leading this one company to lose some profits - the economy would have been absolutely obliterated. Capitalism demands its blood sacrfices.
@@yaboimaboi2816 without this company billions of people would have lost their jobs and nasa wouldn’t be able to afford to protect earth from asteroids
@@bl1398 Ok didn't realize you were joking
It's strangely heartwarming to hear that some of the surviving victims still give the campsite owner their patronage. I'm glad they seem to have found a way to at least somewhat heal.
To be entirely fair, it was not the campsite's fault in the least. I'm sure they were hurting badly for a long while after the disaster, so I'm sure they were happy people still stayed there despite the horror.
I would still flinch every time I saw a similar tanker truck.
Not joking. I seriously would probably have a panic attack and/or start crying until the truck was out of sight. Geez. I might flinch in the future, just from *hearing* this story. Damn....
@@randomsimpson You're like, so totally in touch with your emotions! *giggle*
I wouldn't be surprised if there's a personal connection element- the owner themself is a survivor of the event, so other survivers may feel a bond to them as someone who went through the same awful experience.
I agree that made me feel somewhat comforted as well. Be strong and move on.
I found this channel just a few hours ago, and I’ve eaten my way through almost all of the videos... They’re bite-sized, they’re factual, and - most important to me - this narrator is respectful of the dead. I immediately subscribed!!
Same here. It was on my suggested videos alert.
Neat analysis.
Same for me, I've almost watched them all. So professionally done...and so informative. I've never heard of most of these disasters. Fantastic narrator with such sad content.
Same, Courtney
Same here but I probably won’t be sleeping tonight 😬
"Pressure release valves were no longer mandatory."
Well, I guess whoever was in charge of that learned quickly...
I wonder if the government body that changed the regulations was ever held accountable?
Sad, that altough some people learned quickly, others payed with their lifes or health for it.
@@kenthepen4857 well, considering 1977 was the first year spain held an election since the civil war and dictatorship that followed, it was a transitional period into democracy so a lot of stuff just flew under the radar. 1978 was the year the spanish constitution was written up.
@@tch9319 Fair comment, thanks.
I wonder what could have possessed anyone to change that. Was it financial? I really don't get it.
Your channel should be called "This is why we have regulations"
We already have regulations and there's a ton of them, this just proves how incompetent government is
As they say, every regulation is written in blood.
I'm a rule follower, and learning about these disasters remind me that I can most likely trust the professionals . It morbid,yet alway a fun card I'm waiting to use on someone about to so something fatally dumb.
This is why we have laws and regulations people!
@@MegCazalet I have never heard of that,but thank god I have now! I'm saving that for later
True that. 🤔👍 Most people don't realise that red tape is there to protect their lives and the environment around them.
I was 8 at the time and was spending Summer with my family in a campsite nearby. The images on TV and in the press (way more terrifying than those in this video, showing endless lines of charred corpses everywhere, some wearing wristwatches stopped at the time of the explosion) got me traumatised for most part of my childhood. With night terrors and an obsessive fear of fire that lasted for years. I'm now 51 and the word "calcinado", which I learned that day, is still directly linked to that even in my mind. I can't hear that word and not think of Los Alfaques.
Sorry you experienced this…
Thank you for your comments. They show how a tragedy of this magnitude can change a generation.
Yeah friend I'll bet it's done a lot of trying to mess w/ you. Soldiers go through this kind of stuff and it can give them the 1,000 yard stare. Good news is that you've made it for so long. You also saw in a vivid and gruesome way few could truly comprehend, that life can end in 1 second. There was an invisible blast too, one that tried to cut people down from the shock of the loss of so much life and happiness, and it tried to claim you with that trauma but you've been winning. Your choice to remain strong is most respectful, and of a heroic nature.
@@RoryeOConnor
ABSOLUTELY CORRECT.
OMG!!! I Said the same thing!! I was 14!! I will never forget those images!! All the people in bathing suits burned instantly!! Most of them where in their backs with the arms stiff pointing straight up to the sky!! Some of their faces had almost no meat.all you see is the teeth skull etc with a little bit of muscle! Those pictures tramatized me also!! It's been like 43 or so yrs and I still remember all those details!! I know u saying the truth because I saw all that myself..but in pictures!! Thank God!! God bless you all!!🙏👍
This one is actually quite horrific. A lot of the time you can see that there were many opportunities not to become a victim of the disaster, this one doesn't really offer any chance to escape.
Yes, a slowly toxic chemical cloud getting bigger there is nothing that can stop you from entering it out of curiosity
Overfilled tank with no pressure relief valve? That wasn't an accident. That was a murder.
And yet the bigwigs up top suffered no consequences whatsoever for their cold indifference. Only 4 employees, almost certainly lower level stooges, went to jail, and only for one year.
@@WobblesandBean yes it's all about hierarchy. Not so much now these days
@@WobblesandBean It was the same situation in the 1911 tragedy of the The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Nearly 150 immigrant women and teen girls died because of the blatant disregard for human life by the bigshot owners. They never saw one second of jail time or suffered the slightest repercussions.
Massacre
@leah rose Depends on the jurisdiction. Some legal systems recognize "depraved indifference" as a non-premeditated form of murder.
Room must be allowed in tankers to allow for expansion. There’s a mathematical formula for this. You don’t just eyeball it.
It doesn’t seem like this company even bothered eyeballing it. Just fill’erup & she’s ready to go, and be sure to avoid toll roads! 😳
@Liberal post-national state is trash I use to work in a dairy company in Central America, was in charge of the food safety. The boss cut down everything he could from the health and safety protocol, why? Because managers got an end of year bonus for "reducing costs" to the company :) so yes, I confirm.
They do in 3rd world countries.
Tankers usually have a Scully system that shuts off loading before risk of overfilling during loading . They also have a vacuum breaker system to stop them from imploding too.
I wonder how they just "eyeballed" it anyway... so incredibly irresponsible
I was 9 years old, when I was on holiday there with my parents. After 2 days, my father decided to change to another camping site near Torredembarra, cause he felt disturbed by the traffic on the road which was nearby. Next day, the disaster happended.
One of the survivors, a nine year old girl at the time said that she wanted to take a shower that day. But her mother didn’t let her go, her mom saved her life that day because the the showers were very close to were the truck exploded. If she had gone taken a shower she wouldn’t be alive today.
Good lor, the practice of "yeah, that looks about right" when measuring deadly chemicals is insane. This is volatile gas y'all, not a vegetable soup.
I measure my soup very accurately, thank you very much.
Or vegetable OIL for that mstter
@@SoulDelSol 😂
@@SoulDelSol haha right?!? No one better fuck with my soup. That shit has to be perfect!
eh... same thing, not like anybodies gonna get turned into an overcooked chicken nugget thanks to one accodent or anything
I drove fuel trucks like that when I was in the military and yes they are basically napalm bombs on wheels.
Thank you for your service. ❤🤍💙
@@KrinchiD Thank you 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
I hope you drove for the good guys military
@@fishsmell2570 every military is a good guy to its country, at its core, the military has always been for the defense of the country (and its people) against foreign invasion. It’s when politicians misuse the military (like using it against their own people) that it becomes the “bad guys”.
@@reychop lmao every military good. brainwashing be damned.
The fact that the people who survived sometimes chose to return to the campsite is a testament to how good that campsite must be.
Yeah it's a blast
@@gertrudgreger That is sick as hell, dude. And I'm ashamed of myself for laughing like a loon. I truly am, this is such a terrible incident that I shouldn't joke about it.:(
@@djmoch1001 Don't worry about it.
@@gertrudgreger i just spit out my water
@@gertrudgreger Wrong kind of blast.
"The route is totally down to the driver's decision."
We're not gonna reimburse them for tolls paid so they have no reason to take toll roads and that's our fault but...we didn't tell them to go there ^^
I find that completely the fault of the employer and managers. They should be checking if their drivers are using densely populated areas and advise them not to when possible. There should be no misconception or miscommunication made about that situation to the drivers.
Yeah. the company discouraged their drivers from taking the highway by not reimbursing the tolls even if the final decision to eat the cost of the toll anyway was the driver's, the company's policy weighed on their decisions. The company should be at least partly to blame for the drivers not taking the safer, shorter route.
Typical corporate double talk.
Greed.......
My guess is the truckers would rather drive down the beach road to check out the girlies on the beach, given the choice.
BTDT;)
Imagine being covered in burns, and running into salt water to put yourself out....my god, the suffering...
Oh my god it didn’t cross my mind that it was salt water that’s so bad :(
jesus 😰
God, I didn’t even think about that.
And it was boiling temperature to boot. Horrifying.
I thought about it a little and was like nah, forget about it
Murder charges should have been laid against whoever said “pressure valves” were no longer needed
That and a good old fashioned ass kicking. A decision that stupid deserves an ass kicking.
If the Caudillo had still been in charge that might have happened.
@@Ozymandias1 you're absolutely wrong. There was an accident while building a dam that cost the lives of hundreds of workers and no one was even sent to jail. If you think a bloody dictator is the answer look at your priorities.
@Billy O'sullivan they weren’t devaluing words they just mixed them up, chill.
Too bad the entire Spanish government is crooked from top to bottom!
Back then, the news weren't shy to show the bodies of the victims. There's a record in the same newspaper shown in the video (La Vanguardia) that has a video of one of the first news records of this tragedy. In it, they tell and show how those closer to the blast were completely petrified due to the immense heat, in poses closely resemblant to Pompei's victim (viewer discretion is advised for this one, it's really horrible).
I live in Catalonia, was born here, but never heard of this tragedy. Thank you for documenting it, so this terrible mistake is never repeated again.
Yeah i'm also catalan and 19 Y/O and never heard of it, i'll ask my parents about it
I hope my curiosity never leads me to see this footage.
@@randomsimpson I hope it doesn't.
@@randomsimpson would said footage still exist and even if it does, is it even for public
I'm not interested in looking for it, just an anecdote
@@kami_narisamait's history. Just like the Station fire. 9/11. The Hindenberg. The Green Hornet streetcar disaster; they published photos of burned bodies piled up by the door. 50's Chicago. It wasn't hiding on the internet.
I never liked thise accordion doors for that reason. They jam shut in an emergency.
I was a 12 years old girl when that occurred. I lived in Valencia, where many of the severely burnt survivors were transported because we had at least two units specialized in burnt injuries. At around the launch time ambulances started sounding one after the other, after the other, after the other... we knew something important had happened. My house was very close to the entrance of that highway to the city, and behind one of those hospitals. It was a drama. I was not allowed to watch the news or the papers front pages, but I watch those images years after that and it was really impressive. It was a national tragedy. Many Europeans of different countries were in that camping 🤦🏻♀️😢😢😢
It astonishes me how most of the catastrophes on this channel are unknown and/or forgotten about when they really absolutely should not be, they should be general knowledge for lessons and warnings so at the very least the lives lost weren’t lost in complete vain; this channel keeps a light alight for all those lives lost alive and in memory, but how can society forget such things as these, and all the other tragedies we don’t generally know about
Our politicians and corporate leaders don't want the American people to remember-we might demand more of them! Probably the same in other countries.
@@999pr1 that’s a good point, never thought of that
They might still be known about by people in the respective industries. When I became a flight attendant we studied all sorts of significant plane crashes and hijackings to understand why certain regulations came into existence.
If it was truly forgotten, regulations would have been weakened already.
I live near where the accident happened and we know about it, but for example in barcelona, not as much people know it happened
I love how every major disaster happens because someone wanted to save 100$
That’s usually how they start sadly.
Reminds you of Times Beach, doesn't it? Contracting out till you destroy an entire town from toxic chemical dumps
@@Ariel_ButNotTheMermaid - My mother was worried that my dad contracted cancer by it. But we got lucky, they misread his diagnosis.
$100
These companies play the odds to save a few bucks, rationalizing their irresponsibility with the selfish conviction that some of the safety regulations are excessive, unnecessary, unrealistic, and/or impeding the turning of a healthier profit. As years go by and profits are made, the potentiality for disaster is pushed completely out of their mind. And then, when disaster finally hits and people are killed, no one accepts accountability. They would much rather lawyer up, sweep it under the rug with a $$$ settlement, and then move on, than apologize to the victims' families and own up to their greed-driven mistakes. And almost any individual would respond the exact same way. Human nature.
When my dad was teaching me how to drive, he taught me how to refill the car tank with gas. At the gas pump, he would always dispense the gas until the pump clicked, meaning it was full, but he told me that you could still fill it up a bit beyond that level- i never did that myself, but now im going to tell him to stop doing that thanks to this video
To be fair, the pumps click off because of the bubbles touching it, not the gas itself. So, when the bubbles go down, there is still room. Not much, just a little.
However, I have seen someone drive the back tire of his car up onto a piece of a 2×4 big enough only for that tire, so he can fill his tank as much as he possibly can. He kept that 2×4 in his car for that purpose.
Petrol... that isn't even remotely comparable lmao.
Filling up the gas tank of your car is absolutely no problem because the gas tank of a car is not an airtight enclosure so it cannot rupture because it can let off excessive pressure.
@@andi-ih3jj Wasn't an airtight enclosure, until the EU passed regulations regarding escape of VOCs into the environment (California & maybe others may have done similar, I don't follow US car regulations closely), they have a one way valve to allow air in & much less to prevent pressure build up these days. Overfilled & the fuel expanding owing to temperature rise will force excess fuel out round the cap seal if you're lucky, previously it would force it through an overflow onto the ground. Neither is a good idea from a fire safety standpoint.
Leaving the small expansion space caused by the auto shutoff is generally a good idea, even if the purpose of mandating auto shutoff was to prevent spills at fuel stations rather than to create such a space.
The difference being that your gas tank isn't pressurized and gas stays a liquid without being under pressure. The stuff in this truck was a gas, as in state of matter, unless under pressure, and then it was liquid. So when the tank had a lead, the pressure was released and it was a gas cloud that leaked out. It's never going to be more or less flammable in the vicinity of your gas tank. Gas vapors are flammable but even if you leave your gas cap off, you're not going to ignite a fireball if you start up your bbq 50 feet away, or even closer.
I’m shocked at how many of these tragedies I’ve never heard of 😢
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Was just wondering that, and I was an adult or teenager for many, like this one.
I was 12 when it happened, and my dad was stationed in England at the time. The area was popular with British "holidaymakers" and my dad knew one of the victims; as per the video, it was months before he was id'ed and his body returned home.
The incident was world-wide news, and this was the same year of the assassination of Aldo Moro (Italian President) by the Red Brigades, the Pope's death, and the Jonestown Massacre.
True. World is blindly moving forward without taking a break & not looking at the past as often as it should.
So wait, 42 years later and the campground still has the same owner? That's impressive in and of itself.
We have lots of longtime family-run businesses here in Catalonia! 🙂
@@TheNadinucca I think the point was that the owner went back to the campsite (like many people who had been there in 1978) despite the horrors she /they witnessed.
@@fluffy-fluffy5996 exposure therapy and healing through better experiences i suppose 😳
Right. Unheard of where I live in Vegas. If a place has had the same owner for any real length of time it's astounding.
i guess every year is a good year after that.
That's horrendous. And I had never heard of this before.
I hadn't heard of this either - the video was very good, detailed and concise - just imagine those poor campers wondering what that cloud was - a shocking amount of disaster.
I haven't heard of any of the disasters on this channel. That's why I like this channel
I had never heard of this either which is certainly a corporate PR strategy. Can’t let this be forgotten!
Sooo tragic. RIP
@@naysmith5272 yep thats why i love this channel
Same.
Politicians be like “we need to stop handcuffing businesses with regulations.” These guys be like “hold my highly volatile compressed gas”
like seriously lmao
That is true regarding safety regulations. The problem for so many businesses are nonsensical regulations meant to raise funds and justify bureaucrats.
@@dagneytaggart7707 the solution is getting rid of all bad beaurocrats, as long as it takes for things to improve
@@dagneytaggart7707 But there has to be a better reason to remove regulations than just "because it hurts profits!"
@@ikr9358 Many regulations are nonsensical. They exist to control or raise funds for the government, without a health or safety reason for them. Every regulation should face scrutiny and justify its existence.
Hurting businesses is a legitimate concern. Killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. Look up the story.
I remind that the following month, in mid August 1978, I was a little child vacationing in southern Italy with my family and friends at a camping site near Peschici Garganico: suddenly one mornint the tent in front of ours erupted in flame due to an unattended burner, and people panicked instantly, being still vivid and fresh in everyone's mind the horror of Les Alfacs. My mother sent me away with my brother uphill and went back to fetch documents and money. The response to fire was quick and effective, my dad collaborated to put down the fire, which was impressive. I remember I have never felt scared as mom and dad kept their minds cool and never let fear filter to us children. That very night the german teenagers which had lost their tent in the fire came to dine and sleep with our family.
My friend's both parents and brother were there and never returned to him. I still can't imagine. RIP
That's heartbreaking. I can't imagine the pain. I hope your friend found some comfort and happiness later in life.
Wow that is very sad.
So sorry for your friend.
💔🙏
Were they from Colombia?
I’d never heard of this, how utterly terrifying. RIP to all those who so sadly and tragically died. My thoughts are with those who survived x
Same. I was about 12 when it happened but I'm still surprised I have no memory of it. Great job & thanks again.
@@AK-ec1uw ⁰
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I was 11 when it happened and can remember that my dad forbade me to have a look into the newspaper because of the gruesome photographs. And he was right to do so.
In this video all gruesomeness is left out as well, thumbs up!
@@MichaelBrinkmann
I was 8 and I remember some images from the TV News...
It was in the new for about 8-10 Days
I remember that one from my primary school physics textbook, it was the example for thermal expansion of liquids and why you have to take them into consideration.
BLEVE
I love when information can actually be applied to real life and you can show how important it actually is. If I had to learn that in school and I wasn't given a situation like this as an example I'd think the information was useless.
yalls primary school was telling you about hundreds of people being horribly killed?
I remember this event as if it were yesterday. I was a young intensive care doctor, and the insurance company I worked for asked me to repatriate one of the survivors of this catastrophe, who was burned 90%, from Barcelona to the major burn center in Bordeaux. His wife and spouse, unharmed, accompanied us. When I took charge of him in Barcelona (where the care provided was remarkable), I said to the injured man, 'Sir, I'm bringing you home.' With a sigh, he said, 'Thank you.'
He died on his stretcher at the foot of the plane. In silence.
I'm from Spain and I clearly remember that tradegy. Thanks for being sensitive and spare us the horrible pictures that were posted in media back then. It was a nightmare that shocked and haunted the entire country for years.
I'll never forget this horrible tragedy. Whole Europe was shocked. The imagination of the victims suffering was nearly unbearable.
A scary but sadly necessary accident.
🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Amen. I do remember it too. I was eleven and have not forgotten. The pictures were truly scary. Like a horror movie.
"necessary"? explain this part?
No idea what's going on, no place to hide, no time to run. Simply inescapable doom. My heart goes out to all the victims and survivors.
Calming music, easy to understand narrator. No exaggerations, just the facts. Thank you 👏
All these stories should be a testament to regulations. As we’ve seen time and time again if a company can cut corners, they will do so, despite the risk to staff and patrons.
I always feel odd "liking" these videos, but they are well produced.
Think of it this way, it benefits the creator of this channel and he puts in a lot of research and effort when making these videos. I understand what you mean tho :)
Agreed, however, I feel like it’s human nature to be curious. As long as we still keep our curiosity about non tragedy stuff we’re good. Another point, this is history. All of these people are worth remembering and respecting. So, no worries. Plus, Megan Walmsley’s point that this creator works really super hard to make these videos for us. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🌎💜🌈
@@meganwalmsley1822 Agreed, however, I feel like it’s human nature to be curious. As long as we still keep our curiosity about non tragedy stuff we’re good. Another point, this is history. All of these people are worth remembering and respecting. So, no worries. Plus, Megan Walmsley’s point that this creator works really super hard to make these videos for us. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🌎💜🌈
Me too, mainly because I use my liked videos to keep tabs on my more liked music.
Excuses. You are warped for liking them . .. just like everybody else here.
"Highly volatile...stored as a liquid under pressure for transport" _oh no_ oh no *OH NO*
Flammable gas + nearby campsite = I shouldn't be watching this video...
Through towns.... no no no that’s why these trucks don’t go into cites or town
My Instincts were screaming Catastrophe all over ...
The moment I heard "campsite" I thought "ohhhhh shīţ, I see where this is going. One _tendril_ of that gas touches a grill, barbecue, or campfire, and *_B O O M._* "
And then it wound up catching Fire In The Disco.
Pun: Intended.
Expectations: Subverted.
Hotel: NOT Trivago. I'm never leaving the house again, knowing shīţ like this happens out there.
Im from spain, i've seen images of this and they still hunt me...something to add though, the survivors to the explosion tried to escape from the heat. The fire, the toxic air. The smoke....they went into the sea but they burned there because as you said, the sea was actually boiling...
I just can't picture the horror and im glad because of the devastation and loss of lifes....RIP :(
This is one of the most casualty-filled stories you’ve told. My god, what a tragedy.
Being a portuguese company, that doesn't surprise me that the drivers were told to take secundary roads to avoid paying the tolls... that's a practice still used today, unfortunately. RIP
Only the Portuguese companies do that? Check your facts first, they all did it at the time.
@@hugomacedo9223 I wasn't going to answer you, but here I go: I didn't say «only portuguese companies did and/or do that», I'm well aware companies around the world cut corners even if it put other people's lifes at risk. So, before I check my facts first, you should think before you write and don't be so near sighted just because we're talking about a portuguese company. And if you didn't understood anything I wrote, I can do it in portuguese because... guess what, I'm portuguese too!
Perhaps the safer routes should not have a toll! Of course no government will ever admit to that being the truth. Safety should not be made to cost extra.
No tolls in Germany. Das ist VERBOTEN!
They are international roads, which need paying for somehow by the people that use them. Including those who drive tanker-bombs down them.
Yeh, obviously the driver would freely choose a twisty coastal road rather than a motorway for a six-hour tanker journey....
Nothing like a good boiling workout swinging around an underpowered 1970's (if they were lucky) tractor unit slowly through towns, when they could instead hit the motorway get her into top after a few minutes and get some fresh air through the cab.
..all to save a buck.
Getting paid by the hour
Excellent point. I think that solves the mystery. ... Such a shame. All of it...
The driver probably had to do this journey many times a day and all those tolls probably mounted up over the day and weeks and year, I would blame the truck company for being out of order for not paying the money back to the drivers.
I remember reading about this in Reader's Digest when I was a child. It scarred me for life.
I've seen a bunch of these videos and I think this is the one that is the scariest when I try to put myself at the scene. Can you imagine if you didn't die instantly, but did die from being burned alive - especially in the days/weeks/months that followed - how freaking painful and miserable that would be? It's just incredible. La verdad que me da mucha pena.
This channel just getting better and better. So many disaster events that I never heard of.
R.I.P to those poor campers 😢
I agree
I have a considerable collection of disaster books and dvds/vhs amassed over 40 years, I’ve never heard of this one either.
@@YeahNo woah really
I know right 😣
Somebody said "the cheap comes out expensive". That's so true. If the company had spent the money on toll charges and taken all safety measures, the disaster either would not have happened or would have possibly been less severe. It definitely would have been less costly.
That part too. They should have just used the tollway (which had its tolls abolished at the end of 2020).
Next time a politician starts the rally cry of “Red tape is crippling business! This government will cut red tape!!” please ask for specifics.
That tape is red because its been written in the blood of those who came before us.
Not all regulations are beneficial or needed. That's the problem.
odd enough, this was 3 years after Franco had died
Politicians are the last effing people you should look to place trust in. Who do you think OWNS them? Dude, you don't become millionaires working a 170,000 a year salary. Bezos, Gates, etc own those slime. All of em.
@@troymash8109
It's even worse when they're owned by Putin
The entire event is nothing short of horrific and lethal corporate negligence, but I can't help but think that the owner's sentiment is nothing short of beautiful.
"While the site is forever haunted by the specter of the explosion, the landscape will recover, and better memories than those of that dark day will be made there for many years to come."
6:40 - When politicians/companies whine about "too many regulations"...Remind them that Safety Regulations should never be repealed for they are Written In Blood.
Well said
Written in blood is right! I don’t remember what video I was watching but someone who worked on a construction site commented something similar. How every single rule or safety regulation put in place on a job site, the reason it existed was because someone had lost their life or been horribly injured. Regulations are there for good reason!
Nope. Regulations are to be scrutinized and dissected.
Lobbiest push for regulations in order to out spend their competition into bankruptcy.
Paris accords would have stopped ingenuity and innovation in America. We dont follow those regulations, however we have still cut the most carbon out of our footprint compared to other countries.
Most regulations are logical however they should never be taken at face value. Regulations are used like taxes without representation.
Do you want another tea party? Cause that is why citizens seized control of merchant ships and tossed their products overboard.
@@Emiliapocalypse As ex instructor at Fort McCoy Wis 4 Army training center, The normal class was a 3-hour block of instructions, to all of the Army reserve and national guard units in a 6 state area, I told my classes and there's not one letter nor one word in any training manual or Field manual that has not been paid with out a person's death. I emphasized on safety safety safety..
Yeah, one of Trumps favorite thing to do, rolling back and dismantling regulations. Made all his corporate buddies very happy.
True story : when I was a little kid I sometimes stayed at my grandmother's house and she was always getting the "Reader's digest" magazine, she had a huge collection at home. I started to read so many of them and one day I found an article about this disaster. It totally fascinated me, the horror described in the article was terrible for a young lad that I was. But it gaves me the taste for reading about crimes, history, big events and, of course, disasters. that's why maybe the article about the los alfaques catastrophy is the reason why I am here now writing this comment.
OMG, I did the same thing, too! :-)
My grandad used to get men only, a lot better read to be honest
@@TheMouseAvenger It's a small world :)
"Just remember, Comrade, that if you take out the 'a', the 'e' and 'r' it becomes 'Red's Digest.'" -Col. Flagg
I loved reading Readers Digest.
I appreciate how you relate the facts plainly while also humanizing the impact on the victims, living and dead. Well done.
Overloading is very very common especially in short haul trips cause then you don’t gotta go through the weight stations. That or you specifically overfill it in one or two tanks to only add weight to certain axles so you can still sneak through
Well that’s horrifying.
Imagine you go camping and all of a sudden it’s like Hiroshima.
The description of the accident itself sounds like something that comes out of final destination
@As A I must compliment the bird in your picture. Simply fabulous.
Imagine you’re in Hiroshima and suddenly it’s like Hiroshima.
Altingaus. that was actually my first thought.
@@ajakuk1 🤣🤣🤣
Never trust a strange cloud! They’re way too shady
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Especially not one who wears socks
@@Prosecute-fauci Really? I was taught not to trust sockless clouds...
Underrated comment
Yeah, they're always hiding something or covering for something hot.
Please never change the length of your videos!!! They’re PERFECT. the right amount of info and I can pay attention to it all (ADHD lol)
So, SO pleased that the YT algorithm placed one of these vids in my path! This is a fantastic channel. I love and appreciate good grammar and respect for the dead. This channel serves up both. Very, very well done. Thank you 💗
Another crazy thing is that I've seen trucks hauling tanks like this being cut off and/or brake checked by other drivers. My dad used to own a semi and hauled tankers all the time and was constantly getting cut off by cars, a few times having to swerve onto the shoulder to avoid a collision.
I remember I had to stay between two lanes because some ass chief in a large pickup (lifted, of course.) decided to veer into my lane and nearly hitting me. Both the guy in the semi and I were honking our horn at him but that didn't even help make him realize he had sandwiched a car between himself and the semi.
@@jeiku5041 Oof that must have been so stressful. Glad you made it out okay!
My uncle drove a tanker for a company called Humpko in the '50s and '60s. He said that when the tank is half full and you have to make a sudden stop the liquid (soybean oil in his case) would swish back and forth making it nearly impossible to stop or control. He said the only thing as dangerous was a freezer truck full of swinging beef, except beef won't explode.
Did you tell your mommy.
@@indy_go_blue6048 installing baffle walls to divide up the space in the tanker would be a simple way of preventing that.. 🙄
I had just arrived in Spain and was living 1 mile from this camping ground, and saw it all happening being first alarmed by the first explosion,,we also immediately went to the camping grounds to see if we could help in any way possible, to this day I still see the images in my head of the victims, one image especially ,now 40 plus years later I still live here and fortunately the camping grounds look quite nice and peaceful again,being enjoyed again by many foreign campers,but the memory of the Camping Alfaques disaster will always remain, RIP to all the victims of this horrendous accident!🙏🙏
Fuckin bs
@@alexr3430 what would she gain for lying? CZcams likes ?? 😂
@@alexr3430 that would be you. Go talk to the mirror.
@@alexr3430 yeah cuz the little 13 year old timmy who listens to edgy little rap songs is the one we'll listen to 😂
Hey, thank you for including that last hopeful bit. Oftentimes, the most impressive part of these disasters are the way people recover from them.
I have never heard of Alfaques before this. You really described it well. I felt as though I was sitting in the camp site wondering whether or not it was safe to light my joint.
I remember my mom seeing this on the news in 1978 as a kid, and I remember hearing people running into the sea "on fire". Horrifies me to this date.
I remember that day, I was a small boy then and in the news came the pictures uncensored, people lying still burned and smoking from their bodies. I will never forget those images.....
the fact that this happened near my town and everybody here remembers it with so much pain is so sad. i wasn't even born but my heart goes to those who lost their loved ones that day.
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How odd.
The fire/explosion torched the cars just a few feet away but left the tablecloth and the picnic unscathed.
Fire is fickle.
Whenever the narrator says, “At about... (insert time here)” I cringe and brace myself.
What I hear is ABOUT then an exact time down to the minute.
It’s like saying ‘circa 1543’ circa is just a fancy way to say an estimation. Estimations aren’t exact!
As I've seen plastered all over the walls of employers, "Safety isn't a cost. It's an investment."
It’s one thing to put up a sign, and a whole other thing to put human life above profit.
@@scotttrent4721 I think the problem is that it usually costs a ton of money too. I imagine the company wasn't too happy paying millions to all these victims' families.
@@jesuszamora6949 The problem is that it’s in the nature of capitalists to care more about money than they do about humans.
@@scotttrent4721 Which is why Chernobyl didn't explode, because it was run under communists. Oh wait.
It doesn't matter the system, the human element is always the most dangerous part of it.
@@sirgideonofnirtheall-knowi1881 the USSR wasn't communist when Chernobyl exploded though. It was state capitalist.
We were camping closeby on that date and I remember the news very well. The images of the burnt bodies are engraved in my memory, warning: If you find these pictures they're very haunting. The explosion is called a BLEVE, and started in the small café/disco, where everybody died instantly of the pressure of the blast. Nowadays, seeing drivers of big tanker trucks on the highway, using their mobile phone not handsfree still infuriates me.
Compliments for this documentary, it's impressive and without useless sensation
Similar thing happened in Houston, TX many years ago. That tanker had ammonia in it and was rush hour traffic on a part of highway with steep embankments and it crashed off a bridge onto the highway. 7 died, 200 were injured.
Similar? As in that there was a tanker truck involved, a hazardous substance, and an ill advised delivery route through populated areas?
Absolutely! No way you were comparing less than 10 people, being overcome by chemical fumes, versus hundreds, being flash fried...
No way....please?
Regulations: [Loosened.]
Murphy's Law: 😃😃😃
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Murphy's what?
@@theemirofjaffa2266 Law
wait this is so funny
I really didn't want to laugh but this got me.
I’m surprised this isn’t larger than what it is. This is surprising and utterly horrifying.
It's probably because it happened in Spain in the '70s, so without the Internet news of the incident did not spread widely in the English-speaking world. People saw it in the evening news on TV, went "huh, that's horrible" and then forgot about it.
I've subscribed to your channel a while ago, and I just wanted to say I thoroughly appreciate your way of delivering these tragic moments in history. You make sure you've got your information correct and you respect those who lost their lives. 👏👏 Well done and thank you.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - you never know when your time will be. You can only hope that when it comes it won't be a gruesome, painful experience like this one.
"The child of Somosierra" is another tragedy that involves a truck and a deadly cargo in Spain in 1986. I won't spoil the surprise of why the case its called like that.
That was a wild story
I will look this up
Either give us a link or go ahead and spoil the surprise.
@@theemirofjaffa2266 jajaja i write this comentary for the narrator. I think he would tell the story better than me. Maybe he knows this one, Spain has many strange stories.
what a story oh man
Horrendous, what a tragedy. I’m glad you tell these events, they help to keep the actions accountable and the victims remembered. No one should forget such tragedies.
"How many safety regulations do you want to skip?"
Company that owned the tanker: "Yes"
Just a small detail: in July 1978, Catalonia was not an autonomous region yet. That came a few years later, after the Constitution was voted in December 1978.
I remember that accident. I was eleven at the time, and camping not far from where it happened. I was so terrified afterwards that couldn't sleep and asked my parents to cut short our holidays and go back home in Madrid. I do not know if I had any influence, but that day we left the camping and went back to Madrid. I could not go camping afterwards, until I was an adult and could made sense of what had happened. It was terrible.
Thanks for sharing
When I realized this occurred in Spain in the 70s, my first thought was terrorism (ETA). I was wrong. Never underestimate the power of human greed, negligence and incompetence.
"What's up with this weird white smoke?"
*Lights Cigarette*
That's probably exactly what happened
420 blaze it
I thought cigarette too. At the discotech
Thank you for this reminder. I was 9 at the time of the tragedy and I didn't know about it or maybe forgotten. It is also a reminder of the importance of regulations that can save lives when many corporations only think of saving money.
Excellent video, as usual. The explosion was actually a BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapour Explosion), one where ALL the residual liquid in the tank gets vaporized and combusted nearly instantly upon failure of the tank. This is why the radiated power released is immense, much higher than in a common gas explosion, where a relatively small amount of flammable gas burns. While the destructive energy of a normal gas explosion is essentially limited to the blast (overpressure), in the case of a BLEVE it is the thermal radiation that causes the most damage.
Horrible. They just wanted to have a good time camping and spending their holiday.
Dude this whole disaster was your fault
Can you imagine being at a picnic and suddenly everything bursts into flames? I’m not sure id be able to grasp that reality. I’d probably think I was in a hellish nightmare. Those poor people :( never heard this story before, thanks for sharing
I always think about the playground scene in Terminator 2 when it comes to events like this. Absolutely frightening
God Damn. This is one of the worst most horrific tragedies that I've never heard of. Something about this one gets me...
Pete B. Lane hit the nail on the head. I'm giving the thumbs up for the research, production and bringing a story most of us have never heard of. Thank you.
Everyone is different but I would never return to the campsite. Remembering such a horror would be just too much to bare.
I would be that way. I might appreciate the ceremony but fuck ever laying eyes on the place again.
Your ability to find obscure and fascinating disasters is remarkable. Please don't stop, education about this kinda stuff can save lives
I'm from Spain and I didn't know this had happened... Thanks for talking about this disaster
After the holiday a young teacher of our school in Kapellen , Belgium , did not come back from this tragedy . I hope they put some kind of memorial at the site for the victims . Erwin .
When I was in high school studying French, we would read French magazines on a Friday afternoon. This tragedy was covered in Paris Match along with graphic photographs, which were horrific, and in my opinion should never have been printed, I was 15 at the time, and those images were imprinted on my brain. An immeasurable tragedy, my condolences to all affected.
I'm from Nice. I can't even begin to tell you how devastating it was to go through the Paris Match they made after the 2016 Nice truck attack.
I've never checked a Paris Match since, but I do believe that it's important that those shocking images are being printed somewhere, because sometimes you forget those catastrophies are actually real.
I was only 7 years old and I still remember seeing this incident on the tv news... It was a terrible disgrace!
If you can, check on the Biescas incident, another camping site shattered by a flood, because it was built over a dry stream and they didn't know it.
Thank you for sharing these stories. Greetings from Barcelona!
Oh God . I remember that one . That year a few months later we were camping at the Benicassim festival and during the night started raining heavily and with wind . People were hysterical , it was pouring and it was pitch black . We lost our tent and have to leave in a hurry and sleep that night in the car .
People seriously thought that it was going to be like Biescas . Thanks God it wasn’t ,
I will never forget this one. I was 13 at the time and my family used to go camping frequently during the summer vacations. I had a hard time sleeping on those trips after this accident
7:02 This picture contains a magazine that says "Never forget" or "Unforgettable" in Dutch.
You got that right. Those poor people...
From now on I'm gonna stay further back from trucks full of chemicals on the highway and I'm sure as hell going to avoid mysterious clouds.
And I never stop at a gas station where they are refilling the underground tanks. Seems like an explosion waiting to happen.
I always do that and if I’m near them I try to drive away as fast as I can 😅
@@catmip I so that too but only because the new gas is mixing with old and I be thinking of the sediments of the tank swirling around
These tank semis are impossible to avoid in AZ 😟
Respectful, thorough...cautionary. It’s a good tribute to the victims to keep the lessons of these incidents alive somehow, worth the work!
Wow, what an absolute nightmare.
Heartwarming story at the end though, that the campsite carries on and some families who were even there that day continued to visit regularly. Makes me want to go visit myself.
I appreciate your detailed research and presentation of these tragic events.
I was 10 years old when it happened. I remember well this accident.
Same here, almost 9yrs at the time. Most people I asked about the disaster didn't remember it ( I did but couldn't remember where it happened) and it took a bit of research in 2010 to find it.
One other thing I discovered while trying to find this disaster is that tanker truck accidents are distressingly common😬
I also remember this happening but didn't know the causes until now.
Same here. I was 11
I’d never heard of this before. How terrifying.
I appreciate your content. Just well researched and factual.
Each time i watch your videos it takes me 2min to recover from the creepy but awesome intro music. I love your channel.
I remember watching a TV movie covering this catastrophe on German television around 15 years ago. The campsite was very popular among German tourists in the 70's, and many of the victims were Germans. I was born nine years after it happened, yet it is something that I've always been vaguely aware of.