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Badge on the Warehouse: How a Sheriff's Land Became a Deathtrap
Badge on the Warehouse: How a Sheriff's Land Became a Deathtrap
A warehouse explosion visible from space killed seven men and shredded a rural community - and investigators found more than one million pounds of explosives stored on agricultural land under a sheriff’s lieutenant’s ownership. How did a permitted pyrotechnics company, an unpermitted warehouse, and a badge on the deed combine to create a deathtrap that offered no escape for anyone inside?
In this episode, we tell the story of the Esparto warehouse explosion: the timeline from the first fire report at 5:50 p.m. to the catastrophic…
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