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The Best Episodes of Destroyed In Seconds Season 1

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    #1 - Episode 1

    Season 1 Episode 1

    Aired 8/21/2008

    Chesapeake Bay 9/30/81 – A US Navy Douglas A-4 Skyhawk crashes during a bomb test. Portland, OR – Two men attempt to save their lives, by outrunning a large mudslide. Nicaragua 11/4/02 - Eric Barone tries to set a land speed record on a volcano. Unfortunately, his bike broke in two when it hits a bump, tumbling Eric down the volcano. 5/12/02 A Danish windmill goes out of control and rips apart. Iran 1980 – Operation Credible Sport ends in a C-130 crash. Iowa – A tornado hits a bank. Alabama – Cars are sent into the air by a tornado that hits a parking lot. Milawukee, Wisconsin 4/11/89 – A Sikorsky S-58ET N4247U (November 4247 Uniform) operated by Midwest Helicopters crashes due to a failed coupling on the tail rotor, after carrying an old and faulty air conditioner from a roof. Bristol, VA 4/15/08 – A tanker truck fire is caught on tape by a police dashboard camera.

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    Season 1 Episode 2

    Aired 8/21/2008

    Bakersfield, CA – A Speedboat hits the shore, flies over a hill, and onto a road. Luckily, the driver escapes just before the boat hits land. Puget Sound, WA – Footage of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge being built, and the November 7, 1940 footage of its collapse, killing a dog in the collapse. Thorold,Ontario 8/11/01 – MS Windoc crashes into a canal bridge, and catches fire, leading to an explosion. Thankfully, no one is killed. Okinawa, Japan 8/20/07 – China Airlines Flight 120 catches fire on the tarmac and has to be evacuated. Zambramnya, Iraq – An Al-Qaeda torture compound is blown up by a US missile strike. Guam – A B2 Bomber crashes on takeoff and is destroyed. Texas - A tornado rips the entire foundation off a house, like The Wizard of Oz; and has damaging hail. The next season, Stormchaser Alex Tyler builds screens for his car to protect his team from hail, but the F5 drops softball-sized hail on them. A downed power line traps him with the F5 closing in, but able to escape. Despite all the protections, it still almost breaks the windows. Turkey – A munitions factory is blown up by terrorists and is completely leveled.

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    #3 - Picnic Surprise, Chemical Inferno

    Season 1 Episode 3

    Aired 8/28/2008

    Oxnard, CA 2/14/05 – An Amtrak Pacific Surfliner train hits an 18-Wheeler because of a faulty traffic signal. Iksan, South Korea – A fire starts at a propane filling station. Mountain Home, ID 9/14/03 – Thunderbirds pilot Chris Strickland crashes at an airshow, evading death 1/8 of a second of it crashing. Middle River, MD 9/14/97 – A stealth fighter crashes. Henderson, NV – The PEPCON disaster. Manila, Philippines 5/4/88 – An 8-story department-store comes off its foundations, and crashes into a nearby high-rise flat, but no one is killed. David Ferguson crashes his speedboat twice. St George, Utah 1/05 - The Santa Clara River overflows, and destroys several houses.

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    Season 1 Episode 4

    Aired 9/4/2008

    Taiwan 7/8/95 – A styrene tanker truck explodes. Cape Canaveral, FL 1/17/97– A Delta II 7925 explodes because of a 19-foot long crack. Thailand – A 40" mock cigarette made from hydrogen-filled balloons at a mock funeral on World No Tobacco Day goes up in flames. Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia 8/8/05 – A climbing expedition's helicopter crashes into the ice from engine problems. Moreton Island, Australia 11/8/97 – The Enterprise freighter is sunk to make a reef, but causes injuries. Fullerton, CA – The Air Day plane crash. Assisi, Italy 9/26/97 – An earthquake destroys St. Francis Church Oklahoma – A tornado devastates most of a pig-farm's buildings. Oklahoma – A tornado hits the El Reno airport. Hawaii 9/11/92 – Hurricane Iniki.

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    Season 1 Episode 5

    Aired 9/18/2008

    Dallas, TX – An Acetylene factory fire launches tanks onto the road Prince George, British Columbia – At the Sandburst Games downhill race a couch crashes with 3 people. The crash ends the Sandburst Games. New Providence, IO – A new water tower collapses Murdock, IL 9/3/83 – A Railway car with gas derails and burns for 3 days, causing two massive explosions. Phoenix, AZ – Stolen dump truck chase, ending in a crash. Wailua, HI – A helicopter crashes on a ditch. Tiny manages to lift the helicopter off Steve. Mexico City, Mexico – A tanker truck explodes after hitting a train. Mojave Desert, CA 7/12/98 – Ron Cook tries to set a speed record on his motorcycle, but wipes out, however, surviving the crash at 200 mph. Nagasaki, Japan – A typhoon blows a building past a hotel where a travelling English folk-dance team is staying.

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    Season 1 Episode 6

    Aired 9/25/2008

    Cranesville, NY 4/27/02 – The fire department trains to set an old house on fire. It explodes, because the fuel was soaked into the wood. Weatherford, TX 10/8/05 – A Police chase ends in a 120 mph head-on crash Plymouth, England – The King of Shaves speedboat crashes. Three Rivers, TX 8/25/90 – Gas dire tank explosion. Thinan, Taiwan – A rescue-training helicopter crashes into water during a rescue training exercise. 1970s Nuclear flask crash test footage. La Paz, Bolivia – Domestic call with a rigged propane trap that blows the house up around police. England 1998 - A fireworks factory catches on fire and fireworks shoot out. No one was injured. Sevastopol, Ukraine 7/10/06 – Tupolev Tu-134 05 crashes on takeoff because of a bird that went into the engine.

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    Season 1 Episode 7

    Aired 10/2/2008

    UK 7/24/93 – At an airshow a pair of MIG-29s collide at the Royal International Air Tattoo Chandler, AZ 2/24/85 – A speedboat crashes into a shore and flies onto powerlines Manchester, England 6/15/96 – 1996 Manchester bombing a van loaded with 3300 pounds of explosives is detonated at the Arndale centre in the center of town by the Irish Republican Army Florence, OR 11/12/70 – Paul Linman reports on the blowing up of a whale carcass, but ends up finding huge pieces of whale, even crushing a vehicle, but no one was in at that time. They are ultimately forced to go with Plan B: move the whale into a trench. St. Paul, MN – I-94 van fire BLEVE explosion fireballs across traffic. Caruso Gorge, CA – Miles Todd mountain bikes and falls 150 feet down a cliff, resulting in serious injuries NASA 1984 – Boeing airplane crash test Las Vegas, NV January 1, 1968 – Evel Knievel's fountain crash Wembley, England – Evel's 13 bus jump crash Albuquerque, NM – A hot air balloon in the shape of Smokey Bear hits a radio tower.

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    Season 1 Episode 8

    Aired 10/9/2008

    Ethiopia 1991 – terrorists blow up an ammo depot killing over 100 with several explosions Hagerstown, MD – during a race Gary Stewart is bumped into a corner guard rail and badly wrecked Paris, France – 6/8/89 airshow Russian MIG crash Paris Air Show San Francisco, CA 12/12/95 – a mansion is swallowed up by a sinkhole caused by a sewer break Wilkesboro, NC – an SUV crashes through a diner knocking a man into the counter Granby, CO 6/4/04 – Marvin Heemeyer in the Killdozer TX 5/5/00 – a cop pulls over a lady and warns her to stand back so she doesn't get hit, then her car gets hit with a van which seemingly defies the Laws of Physics by not flipping over. Luckily, the lady's car was a rental. Texas City, TX 4/16/47 – The Texas City Disaster.

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    Season 1 Episode 9

    Aired 10/16/2008

    109 Fairfield, UT – a British helicopter does a loop at an airshow and crashes Swedish Air Force 2/2/89 Saab JAS 39 Gripen test flight crashes on landing and rolls Stockholm 4 years later 8/8/93 – the same pilot is at an airshow in the same type of plane and it crashes and explodes Dakota Co. MN 7/11/08 – a cop stops a car, suspecting the driver of drinking and driving simultaneously, and an SUV, carrying the real drunk driver, smashes into it and flips over Sacramento, CA – during a jet car race Dennis Gisua's chute fails to open, he crashes and explodes in front of Neil Hanson. He was in recovery for 2 years, but abandons his jet car race career. Paris, CA – skydivers try to set a record and their DC3 catches fire on takeoff Marshall Islands 1954 – Castle Bravo atomic bomb test explosion is 62 miles wide and leaves a 1.2 mile crater, larger than expected and destroys the testing facility. Comoros Islands 11/23/96– a hijacked Ethiopian plane crashes into the ocean by a resort, killing many. Kīlauea, HI 1986 - a lava flow takes out the town.

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    Season 1 Episode 10

    Aired 10/23/2008

    110 Kolding, Denmark 11/3/04 – Seest fireworks disaster International Hot Boat Race – Super Dave crashes Norway – Hans Lange jumps from a cliff in a wing suit and gets stuck 20 feet up in a tree Milwaukee, WI – Brewer's Stadium crane collapses which was building the new roof, killing 3 and construction is delayed a year Morrisburg, Ontario 9/25/76 – Ken Carter rocket car jump Poland – a dance troupe's tour bus is hit by an F1 tornado Albuquerque, NM 10/84 – hot air balloon hits a powerline Guam 8/92 – Typhoon Omar.

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    Season 1 Episode 11

    Aired 10/30/2008

    111 San Diego, CA 5/17/95 – Shawn Nelson's road rampage with a 57-tonne M60 Patton tank. Gerdez, Albania – 90,000 tons of ammunition explode causing chaos Melbourne, Australia – at a drag race Keith Agis crashes into Darren Carster Lakehurst, NJ 1937 – The Hindenburg disaster. Lakehurst Heliostat crash Mexico – soap opera star helicopter crash during a stunt Taiwan 3/02 – two cranes fall 50 stories from Taipei 101 during an earthquake Imperial Sand Dunes, CA – Trevor Thomas does a double jump with his quad ATV crashing into another ATV Salinas, CA 10/3/99 – Wayne Handley crashes his plane into the ground at an airshow.

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    Season 1 Episode 12

    Aired 11/6/2008

    112 Sewan River, FL – Hank Hogan wipes out his speedboat at 140 mph and is thrown across the water Russia 10/5/91 – a Soviet Yakovlev Yak-141 fighter prototype plane explodes when landing on a carrier Russia 1992 – two Russian Yakovlev Yak-38 VTOL fighters hover over a runway and 1 crashes Salt Lake City, UT 12/13/03 – a van hits ice and crashes into the median, a band coming in the other direction crashes into it and their equipment goes flying Ukraine – a sinkhole eats 144 apartments Pontiac Lake, MI – a plane crashes into a lake and fishermen rescue the passengers Jacksonville, FL 2007 – T2 Laboratories explodes in a massive fireball Lake Michigan – during a search, a boat not looking crashes into a Coast Guard Cutter and after have no idea what happened Antelope Valley, CA 1/19/1995 – NASA Rockwell-MBB X-31 goes out of control and crashes.

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    Season 1 Episode 13

    Aired 12/11/2008

    113 Santiago, Chile – industrial plastics factory fire spews shrapnel Ridger Mountain Range, MT – Nick & Mike film their skiing and start an avalanche that buries them Isle of Man – TT Milky Quayle motorcycle crash St. Petersburg, Russia – 9 story apartment building fire and building collapse Phoenix, AZ – pylon airplane racing WWII Corsair crash Los Angeles, CA – Southern I-405 chain of accidents filmed by Paul Anderic Cape Canaveral, FL 8/12/98 – Titan IV rocket goes off course and is blown up Arches National Park, UT – SUV coming down Lion's Back rock crashes off the side Nantucket Island 12/92 – a Nor'easter storm rips a house away.

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    Season 1 Episode 14

    Aired 12/18/2008

    114 Melbourne, Australia – Calder park – O'Brien's stock car crashes and flips 14 times British Columbia, Canada – Big Dawg Shootout snowmobile hill climb Tim McGregor's crash Oleiros, Spain – Virgin Mary Festival launches a paper balloon that catches fire Bluehill, NE – during a high school football game a gyroplane crashes into bystanders Oklahoma City, OK 3/21/02 – Fire at an Oklahoma City motel. Sacramento, CA – DJ Reid's 68 Camero is driven by Greg into a wall at 100 mph Fort Hall, ID 10/4/05 – cops set up spikes and a fleeing van crashes into a police car trying to miss them Belfast, Northern Ireland 9/6/86 – 70-year-old pilot Ken Wallace crashes a gyrocopter South Dakota 6/03 – Reid Timmer and friends film an F4 tornado and homes are destroyed by the 260 mph winds. Marshall Islands 7/46 - Test of two nuclear bombs following World War II—Known as Opearation Crossroads.

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    Season 1 Episode 15

    Aired 1/5/2009

    Chicago, IL – a 110-car freight train smashes into an 18 wheeler Del Mar, CA 7/4/01 – Bubba Blackwell motorcycle jump ends badly Bakersfield, CA – Bill Burch 1941 drag race crash Paris, TX – a four-story furniture warehouse collapses in a fire Mt. Hood, OR – a helicopter crashes on a mountain top after rescuing trapped climbers India – a large building falls off its foundation into the street Maple Heights, OH – methane gas line explodes into a fire Wentworth Valley, Nova Scotia 1/94 – the Dix house is carried off in a flood crashes into the Wallace bridge Wilmington, NC – a crew putting up a civil war monument tips their crane over into powerlines.

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    Season 1 Episode 16

    Aired 1/12/2009

    Mexico – Baja 500 run – saboteurs makes a hole in the course and a white truck hits it and is launched and flips Denver, CO – window-washing platform smashes into a building, breaks and strands 2 men who have to be rescued by firemen Fernandez gets pulled by a truck while on a bike to take a ramp jump onto the roof of a house and hits the side of it Florida 8/13/04 – Hurricane Charley hits Punta Gorda Schenectady, NY Airshow 8/4/91 – Canadian Sea King shopper crashes/France – Explosions follow a commuter train that crashes into a propane truck Chicago, IL – black ice causes an accident and a police car on scene is smashed by a DWI Rockford, IL – trailer crash racing.

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    Season 1 Episode 17

    Aired 1/26/2009

    Las Vegas, NV – at Pro Flame, a propane plant truck unloading starts a fire, then the fire spreads to the neighboring Amerigas plant. Explosions send fire 150 feet in the air. The fires burn 21 hours, tanks blew everywhere and caused $4–5 million in damage. Woodward, IA 11/12/05 – a man films an F2 tornado coming right at his house, it hits his neighbor’s house, goes by his house and takes out the house behind him. They run over and a woman and her dog are inside and need help. Hollister Hills Park, CA – Paul and friends go offroading and up truck hill. Halfway up he loses it, goes backwards and flips over 3 times down the hill. His friends think he’s dead, but all 4 of them are able to walk out. His $7000 truck is a loss. Burke County, NC 7/24/98 – huge traffic jam causes cars to use on ramps to get off. A tanker truck hits a bridge, it catches fire and the steel bridge collapses on the truck and it explodes, killing the driver. Marble Falls, TX – Lakefest Nationals dragboat racing. Todd wins the race, then loses it, flips over, bounces and shreds apart. He is fished out of the capsule and he is OK. Moscow, Russia 05 – in a 1.4 mile long car tunnel under the river there is ice from a ceiling leak and a jointed bus wipes out, fishtails and hits the wall. A blue car hits the wall and flips over then two box trucks smash into each other. Twin Falls, ID 7/99 – Flying Mike Brown (36) does a motorcycle jump in grass where he loses traction and hits the ramp, but doesn’t make it and goes off the back of the bike and under a trailer and is in a coma for 5 weeks. San Francisco, CA – Fishing boat Contender takes on water and starts sinking. The boat is full of people hanging on to the last second as boats come up to rescue them. It’s 50 degree water that is rough and spreads them around. They are all fished out except for 1; the boat was $150,000.

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    Season 1 Episode 18

    Aired 1/26/2009

    Texarkana, AR 10/15/05 – a freight train derails and police go to the scene. The cop smells chemicals and backs up. Then an explosion occurs and soon night turns into day ahead of him as everything catches fire where he was. Then electrical power blows out. The next day the railyard is on fire, cars are burned up and a couple houses were destroyed. A tanker car with liquid propane crashed and burned. PCH, CA 10/02 – Paul MacDonald rides his motorcycle from San Francisco to LA. He swings both legs to one side while doing a wheelie, goes into a wobble and slams into a parked car and he’s hit and spins down the road. He broke his back. Lexington, OH – Gears Classic Mid Ohio course – Joey #21 goes into the grass and hits a mound that launches him, flipping him 10 times before he tumbles end over end hits the fence. He is able to walk away. NM Desert 1988 – scientists from the US and Japan crash an F4 jet into a concrete wall to test it. The jet is on a track powered by rockets and slams into it to learn how to make better structures. San Jose, CA – a large homeless shelter catches fire. Firemen work on it inside and out, then an entire wall collapses and pins a man underneath. Those outside were safe, no one was inside, the buried man was OK. 120 miles off VA 11/8/98 – USS Enterprise (CVN-65) launches Northrop Grumman EA-6B Prowlers and Lockheed S-3 Vikings all day and night. A Northrop Grumman EA-6B Prowler lands at night and crashes into a Lockheed S-3 Viking and both explode into a huge fireball on deck. The EA-6B Prowler goes over the side killing all 4 crew members. Sherman Reservoir, CO – a group of friends go out and party. A modified Jeep goes up a steep hill and a wheel goes over the side, he tries to back up off, then flips over and over down the hill. The driver walks away. Port of Jericho, Istanbul, Turkey – ferries dock during heavy surf and the floating pier gets covered in water. Everyone is evacuated, then the entire pier flips over and sinks. It was on ballast tanks and one ruptured.

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    Season 1 Episode 19

    Aired 2/2/2009

    Mulhouse-Habsheim Airport, Mulhouse, France 6/26/1988 – Air France Flight 296 is an Airbus A320-111 low-speed flyover demonstration flight with 130 passengers and 6 crew members on board. It loses lift above the runway, goes into trees and explodes killing 3 passengers. 50 people were injured. 133 people survived. Watkins Glen, NY – grand am racecar series continues in a storm. One loses it on a turn and hits a foam wall, then one after another slam into each other and the wall at 65 mph, followed by five more. Two cars are destroyed. Aniva Bay, Sakhalin, Russia – MI14 sea and land helicopter exercise. One hits the water hard, takes water and can’t get lift. It nosedives and the blades rip off, killing 1. Julian, NC – Piedmont Dragway Powerjam. At night Donny revs his engine so hard it explodes. He pulled the safety too soon and the nitrous detonated and he climbed out of the inferno, and just suffers minor burns. He returns to racing the following month. Montreal, Canada – a 2 floor brick building is engulfed in fire and firemen back off and the front collapses. Right before the chief had the ladder truck back off. It takes hours to put it out. It was a welding torch that started it. Manchester, SD 6/24/03 – Two stormchasers drop probes in front of an F4 tornado. It takes out a farmhouse and buildings. It was a record 100 millibar drop. (similar to 114's version) Red Bluff, CA 5/07 – The nitro nationals dragboat racing. Problem Child (David Ishimaru) has trouble in a trial and they replace a prop. In the next race, it bounces, rolls and goes right over the other boat. Ishimaru’s capsule is ripped off and sent flying. He’s fished out with a broken back. Hwy29 – Rob Stewart rides the 318 twist & turn, 11 mile highway on his motorcycle in TN and NC Smokey Mountains – the tail of the dragon. He passes a slow bike and hits a car head on while making a turn. The bike is a loss.

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    Season 1 Episode 20

    Aired 2/2/2009

    Fort Worth, TX – chemical storage facility fire. Huge drums explode and launch hundreds of feet. Smoke can be seen for 30 miles. EPA says to let it go and it burns for 4 ½ hours. Methanol was being unloaded and a spark ignited it. Rantual, IL 8/4/03 – Tim Bernard does over 10,000 skydives and has to be extreme about them. He jumps 13,000 feet and tries to go through large open hangar doors. He wants it all on tape if he crashes. His chute catches the door on the way in at 65 mph and slams him to the ground breaking his hip. Dodge City, KS – Brain Carson does stunts. He jumps 126 feet in his car and lands upside-down on junk cars breaking his arm. Charlotte, NC – He wants to jump 250 feet over flatbeds and land on a pile of cars. He drops his suspension, lands on a fire cannon and flips over and over. It takes a crowd over 30 minutes to get him out. Oklahoma City, OK 8/22/08 – 110 car train derails and catches fire. Oil tankers explode in huge mushroom clouds. It takes 5 hours to get a hazmat team in to start to put it out. Las Vegas, NV – Seth Enslow jumps his motorcycle over 70 bikes. His Honda CR250 breaks in half on landing and he’s thrown skidding along. Fonda Speedway, NY – Johnny #61 is clipped, flips over and over and lands upside down on the wall, then explodes. He rolls out on fire. It takes over 8 minutes to put the car out. Fountain Valley, CA – gas balloon festival. One gets lift early and crashes into a building spilling the pilot out. The student is alone in the ripped up balloon as it flies off. Carbon Co. PA Rt 93 – a runaway truck ramp is filmed by the news because it is so dangerous. Then a truck hits rocks fast, flips over, rips apart and the driver comes out bloody. Years later they remade the ramp.

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    Season 1 Episode 21

    Aired 2/9/2009

    Fuji Speedway, Japan – Le mans race in the pouring rain. The pace car goes too fast, causes Senako to spin out, crash hard, then Tetsuyo Otta plows into him and explodes. The car drives on fire and is put out. He is badly injured and retires. Oakland, CA – a security camera shakes and is turned to find a gas tanker plowed into the freeway. The upper level just melts away and collapses. It takes 26 days to repair. Sudefeld, Germany – Jurgen drives a motorcycle on mountain roads. He loses it and plows into a rock wall and is thrown. Bocaue, Bulacan, Philippines – For New Year’s people buy fireworks, then a stand catches fire and blows up. It ignites 10 nearby stands and shoots rockets. It was a cigarette. Wilbur, NE – stormchasers find a tornado so huge they run from and a small one goes around it. They find an empty building and run in. The front of the building came off and smashed their car. It was an F4 2 ½ miles wide, a record. Malta – annual grand prix plane race over water. Eddie Gagan & Varga collide and go down. Eddie was able to eject, Varga died. Chandler, AZ – world boat finals. James Ray wins, but the boat flips, shreds and spits the capsule out. He broke his back again. Sagu Dock, Turkey 8/07 – rivers overflow and take out the municipal building in a pile. 70% of the area was covered in water.

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    Season 1 Episode 22

    Aired 2/16/2009

    Toronto, Canada 8/10/08 – Sunrise Industrial Gases factory catches fire and explodes into massive fireballs. A shockwave can be felt for 10 miles. Fiery metal is launched, I401 is shut down, people are evacuated. 5000 homes are damaged, 2 are killed. It was an illegal propane transfer that started it. Bellaire, TX 10/15/04 – a drunk Mexican goes on a rampage in an 18 wheeler. He hits traffic and pushes everyone out of the way. They use spikes and guns to take the truck out. Cheshire, England – Oulton park circuit British GT Championship racing. Hunter Abbot goes to miss a car, clips it, plows into the rail, starts flipping, shredding and then it explodes. He rolls out on fire and has only minor injuries. Pampa, TX 6/8/95 – Sgt. Randy Stubblefield films a large tornado forming that comes down. It’s a massive F4 that rips up buildings and goes across town. 43 houses are leveled costing $20 million. St Petersburg, Russia 2007 - Russian M12 helicopter does maneuvers at an airshow, slams into the ground and the blades fly off, then it explodes. North Flack, NE – a warehouse catches fire and a train goes right by it. Then propane tanks explode and the whole thing is leveled. Waterford, CT 7/8 – stock car race at the speedbowl. Jay Losniak races, a couple cars hit and he is launched over them and flips. His mom Jean films it and runs down. Jay is able to walk out. Montevideo, Uruguay – high speed boat racing. One boat loses control and slams right into the judges' boat, smashing it in half. Both sink fast and everyone goes into the water.

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    Season 1 Episode 23

    Aired 2/16/2009

    Mission Bay San Diego, CA – Mark W races a hydro fuel dragboat in a test. He flips it and it rips apart in 2 seconds. He opens the capsule and it takes on water, he spins over trapped, but divers get him out. WI 8/18/05 – 28 tornadoes hit in 1 day. Stauntaun – Cops and civilians film from all over. One goes down, up and then down again. Then an F3 hits the farm across the street. Mechanicsburg, PA – Williamsgrove speedway sprint car race. Scott Zeller #21 clips #88, then cartwheels off the track, over the cameraman, across a yard and into a metal fence. The cameraman was knocked out by a tire. Waegingen, Netherlands – a 16 floor college dorm catches fire from lightning. The roof shoots flames and explodes. Because of construction they had gas generators up there that blew. KY 2/13/07 – Ofc Bill Allen goes to an accident call in the ice. The police car is hit and spunout. A woman calls 911 about her wiping out nearby. Then a semi loses it and hits a red car and slams it into the police car. AZ desert – 1960s Douglas DC7 is intentionally crashed by the FAA for a test. It hits at 180 mph and it shredded in 5 seconds. Dubai – 400 mile endurance race. A man films a yellow landrover truck hit a bump, launching into the air and into the cameraman. They are battered, but not killed. El Salvador 10/05 – Hurricane Stan dumps rain for 5 days. Roads are washed away, trees and power go down. 75% of crops are ruined in 700 mud slides.

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    Season 1 Episode 24

    Aired 2/23/2009

    Tacoma, WA 10/6/07 – a propane truck unloads into a storage tank. It starts to leak and smoke covers the area. Then the truck catches fire spewing up to the freeway. 8000 gallons explode destroying the area. Firemen put it out and find the driver who died later. Marble Falls, TX – Todd Odom races top fuel hydro Spirit of Texas, the boat then rips to pieces and his capsule is thrown free. His blast plate came off and lost stability. Cornwall, England 11/13/91 – Matt 'Kangaroo Kid' Coulter from Australia jumps a riverboat on an ATV. He hits the top of it and is thrown into the river. A year later 8/13/92 he does it again with faster ATV and longer ramp, can’t miss. He hits so hard and is thrown. He rips out every ligament in his knee and loses feeling. Howick Falls, South Africa – Jeff Corlis basejumps from anything he can around the world. He jumps from atop the falls, pulls his chute and is blown into the falls, he’s knocked around, broken and attacked by crabs. He spends a month in the hospital with broken ribs and feet. Geelong, Australia – a DJ and 2 others ride in a Huey 300 helicopter around the water. He goes to land on Cunningham Pier and a downdraft knocks them in the water. All make it out. Santa Fe, Argentina – a bus hits a car and goes over a bridge into a river. They use a large crane to pull it out, but it’s too heavy and the crane goes over too. Glamis Sand Dunes, CA – Seth Enslow is a motocross bike jumper. He takes a jump and lands in a crowd of people when he doesn’t get enough height. He’s fine, bike is not. Crescent City, IL 6/21/70 – the first propane train disaster. A car derails, catches fire, then blows up. A second explosion launches a car into a house. They let it burn 56 hours. It destroys much of the town.

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    Season 1 Episode 25

    Aired 2/23/2009

    Netherlands – a fireworks warehouse catches fire and people fill the streets to watch. Then the fireworks erupt and people start running for it. The whole thing detonates, breaks glass and smashes nearby buildings. A second bigger explosion throws the cameraman. The entire area is leveled, 400 houses were damaged. Santa Inez, CA – Dan Pastor makes a 200-foot jump for his motocross bike. He goes too fast, lands too far and the bike breaks on impact and he’s thrown. His face is bloody, broke his pelvis, back, ribs, jaw and is airlifted out. A year later he makes the jump safely. Needles, CA – Paul Curry soups up his raceboat, takes it on the river and launches. It slams down and he’s thrown 25 feet across the river while his boat sinks. He floats and starts yelling about his back. He broke 4 ribs and punctured his lung. All he could save was the engine. Claremont Speedway - Australia – Aaron Holswich races sprint cars on a dirt track. On a turn he is bumped, he flips 5 times and gets stuck on the fence up in the air as gas pours out. They yank him out and soon afterwards the car explodes. He damages his eye. Denver, CO 11/8/08 - A group of people are interrupted at a restaurant by a car crashing into it. Texas - Jet ski qualifying. Jerry Elinson races, stalls and collides with another jet ski. He loses his spleen. Mexico - Joe paraglides and loses control. He lands in a tree. it snaps and he's trown to the ground. He suffers minor injuries but shattered a rib. USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) 7/11/94 - An F-14 Tomcat crashes on the back of the carrier.

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Episode 1" is the best rated episode of "Destroyed In Seconds" season 1. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 8/21/2008. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Episode 2".