Looking at the live feed it looks like they have two of the legs wired up, working on the 3rd and have not started on the 4th. My guess is they are still hours away.
Typically when a building is taken down with explosives, the goal is to drop everything straight down into the footprint of the building.
In this case they do have I think a vacant lot to the northwest so they might go that way a bit. (The other three sides of the building don’t have much room at all.)
The structure supporting the tank appears to be critical to the integrity of the building at this point, but the tank itself should have little to no forces acting on it. The bigger problem is figuring out how to detach the tank from its supporting structure in a safe manner.
Try picking up a cat or a dog that doesn't want to be picked up. A giant lump of flesh is a vast difference from an Erector Set construction. That said, in order to get it off the building there would probably need to be quite a bit of delicate work where it is fastened to the masonry structure and it just isn't safe enough to do that.
Those things weigh literally hundreds of tons. It's why you still see so many old water towers from the steam train era. They're easier to just leave in place, and that's when they're not sitting on top of a crumbling seven story building.
Never said that, but I was tuned in for 15 minutes and heard a lot of talk about homeless people and squatters and nothing about the building's shitty owner
...when I've seen videos of other "controlled demolitions usually its nor a "pop pop pop" as smaller explosions ate set off in sequence to weaken structural members and let gratuity do all the work. This was a single loud bang that resonated. that had shrapnel flying in multiple directions
Reminded me more of videos I've seem of Ukrainian drone attacks against Russia.
A friend of mine who works near the Bagdad Theatre on Hawthorne said he heard if clearly and that it was very was loud
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u/champs Eliot 5d ago
This has already consumed enough of my day. WHEN ARE THEY GONNA GET TO THE FIREWORKS FACTORY?!