Things seem to be going well at the old aluminum extrusion facility until a flammable liquid erupts from a piece of machinery. Seconds before the factory becomes a white-hot inferno with falling debris, a worker grabs a personal item from the control desk. He's lucky to have escaped with his life.

As McKinley Valentine says in her newsletter, The Whippet (where I first saw this video), there's a "news article about the explosion, but it's not very interesting."

Catastrophic failure at an aluminum extrusion line. Looks like an overpressure event and the oil itself (over a drop ceiling no less) open a portal to a demon dimension… pic.twitter.com/VQeM0f85Mw

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