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My paper "Enschede: Lessons to Relearn" on the SE Fireworks tragedy was presented at the International Fireworks Symposium.

My visit to the memorial to the Brandweermannen (firemen) and the "nabestaanden" (those who are left behind) as a result of the tragedy at the SE Fireworks facility, May 13, 2000.

The fire fighters attacking what they initially thought was a low risk combustibles fire of 1.4G fireworks at the SE Fireworks facility. These four fire fighters were killed by the first blast.

One of the three major explosions at the SE Fireworks facility that resulted in 22 fatalities, almost 1,000 seriously injured and over 400 homes and businesses destroyed. The majority of the 200,000 kilos of fireworks stored here should have been classified at least 1.3G, and were stored to close together and to a populated area.

The aftermath in one of the neighborhoods over 100 meters from the SE Fireworks facility that were destroyed by the secondary fires.

My picture of a young girl looking through the Plexiglas windows of the plywood wall around the neighborhood destroyed by the explosions and fires. People came from all over to view the devastation and leave flowers and notes of sympathy.