Utah Explosion & Utah Rave

About a week ago I was watching the 6 o'clock news in Australia when they reported that a truck had exploded on a Utah highway. They showed a video of the explosion and I was amazed at the reports of no deaths. Click here to view the video. In an interesting coincidence the explosion occurred at the mouth of Spanish Fork Canyon which is a hop, skip, and a jump from the Diamond Fork area where the ill-fated rave was located. The KUTV website has some information on the rave bust and shows in its video the short distance between the scene of the explosion and the location of the rave.
The truck reportedly had just departed from Ensign Bickford Co. a commercial explosives manufacturer which is a subsidiary of defense contractor Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense Company.

Below is an image of the crater caused by the explosion. As you can see the fact there were no deaths is amazing. Especially considering the co-driver claimed to be only 75 yards away when it exploded.



Unsubstantiated update: I have been chatting with one of my Instant Messaging contacts who lives close to the area and he claims that there has been some sort of army/national guard exercise in the area since the explosion. He postulated that there may be some sort of manhunt going on and that the heavy handed (90+ stormtroopers) response could have been part of this supposed hunt.
I can find absolutely no media backup for this claim and I am just putting it here in the hopes that anyone from the area can verify the activity in the area or any alternate ideas. He also claims a lot of helicopter activity in the area so anyone with knowledge of this also can you email me by clicking here.


Stay tuned this story still developing

Tags: Utah, rave, explosion