tennessee bomb factory explosion: Tennessee bomb factory explosion: Nearly 19 feared dead in deadly blast; residents say ‘thought house had collapsed’

It is feared that 19 people died in the explosion that occurred at the military explosives production facility in Tennessee on Friday. The explosion occurred Friday at Accurate Energetic Systems, a manufacturer in rural Tennessee, a state in the southern United States. The intensity of the explosion was so great that people reported hearing and feeling the explosion from miles away.

“There’s nothing to explain, he’s gone,” Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis told the BBC. According to local media reports, the explosion occurred during a normal shift change; This means there are fewer people inside than normal. The extent of the damage remains unclear at this time, but officials said the damage included every building in the area.

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Explosion at factory in Tennessee

Images taken from the scene show a burning debris field and smoke billowing into the air. It appears that many cars and buildings were damaged in the explosion.
Emergency crews are on scene and have warned the public to stay away while they work at the scene. Their main concern is the potential for secondary explosion.

“Most of the time when I come across these types of situations, I refer to them as more than just one person…we’re missing 19 souls,” Davis said. Hours later, Davis confirmed that 19 people were still unaccounted for and that the explosion occurred in a large building. He added that it threw debris over a half-square-mile area.

According to the BBC, the facility in Bucksnort, Tennessee, about 60 miles southwest of Nashville, specializes in the development, production, transportation and storage of explosives. The cause of the explosion has not yet been determined.ALSO READ: Leah Lewis has broken her silence after ‘Matlock’ star David Del Rio was fired for sexually assaulting his co-star. Check details “It was a big enough explosion that I would say people in Waverly felt and heard that explosion,” he said, referring to a town about 15.5 miles (25 km) northwest of the facility.

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee said in a social media post that his office was monitoring the ongoing situation and called it a “tragic event.” State and local officials were working with federal agencies to respond to the explosion.

Accurate Energetics Systems has now ceased operations, the sheriff said. The company is thought to employ approximately 75 people. “They focus on their families and their employees,” Davis said.

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Another explosion occurred in 2014

In April 2014, an explosion occurred at the Accurate Energetic Systems facility. 1 person died and 3 people were injured in the explosion. The explosion occurred in a unit operated by a company called Rio Ammunition. Officials at the time said the Rio Ammunition building was “substantially destroyed” during the explosion.

Residents of Lobelville, more than a 20-minute drive from the military explosives manufacturing facility, said they felt their homes shake.

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Gary Stover, who claimed the explosion woke him up from his sleep, told the AP, “I thought the house was collapsing while I was inside it.”

“I live very close to Accurate and about 30 seconds after waking up I realized it had to be this way.” A person living in Santa Fe, Tennessee, about 40 miles from the factory, also claimed on social media that houses in their neighborhood were shaking.