4:30 PM: SPD and SFD are checking out multiple reports of what sounded like an explosion near Delridge Community Center/Playfield. So far, though, they haven’t found anything.
4:37 PM: SFD has closed the call.
I was checking for this update, we heard this very loudly from Avalon.
It was loud over here near the West Seattle High School. Freaked out me and the dogs.
I live up the street towards Avalon from the Delridge Community Center. It sounded like a bomb went off. I felt my house vibrate. Maybe two weeks ago same thing but not quite as loud was car backfiring.
Oh gosh, that happened right in front of my house! I was watching it outside. It sounded like an explosion going off back to back. The car was struggling to get up a hill.
5:20pm: do all the sirens near the alaska junction have anything to do with this?
There was a call on Alki that briefly drew more than a few police, as well as a medical response. We checked it out. Did not turn out to be anything of note.
That car was hilarious. I’m across the street from it – no idea what he was doing to that poor car but it was backfires for days. Probably destroyed it in the process.
That backfiring car was hilarious. No idea what that guy was doing to the poor car, but backfires for days. Probably destroyed it in the process. Also heard the boom today. Perhaps early NYE revelry.
It’s SFD who closed it – means their involvement, whether investigative or actively dealing with something, is over. In this case, it means nothing was found – they were dispatched to investigate just in case. I don’t know if any police are still checking it out – they don’t have a comparable real-time log.
I just assumed it was Nucor. There have been a few big booms lately.
I live 1 block from the plant and it did not sound like it came from that direction. Besides, I have never heard a boom coming from there that would shake my house like it did this afternoon.
I’ve lived that close to it for almost five years and have had booms from them shake my house on multiple occasions, but it’s been rare as of late. 🙂
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You guys, we’ve almost survived this worst year ever. Just put on a clean pair of sweat pants, hunker down, drink something, and see you in 2021! 🍻
Heard it in N. Admiral, thought it was early fireworks.
One near alaska junction now- sounded like a big firework in a garbage can.
It just happened again. Same kind of boom. Definitely sounds like an explosion. I guess there are fireworks that intense.
Heard the boom while riding my bike on Avalon. Super loud! I thought a transformer blew.
If any of this was transformer-related, there were no outages – I’ve checked the map multiple times. At this point I think we can just blame it on “fireworks” given the calendar date.
They are probably M80 fireworks!! Try living in my neighborhood, people light them off all the time and shot off guns for the fun of it!
This is definitely fireworks. They’re going off more and more now. Large mortar style fireworks are very very loud. I wish King County would ban them.
It was louder and reverberated more than the motar fireworks going off now.
I was walking by the Catholic school on 42nd and heard it. I flinched and stopped dead in my tracks for a few minutes, figured it was fireworks, and went about my business. It would be nice to have a solution to the mystery, though.
We live very close to where you were walking and I’m pretty sure that sound was not a firework. There were fireworks going off all day and night and that was a totally different sound. If anyone will solve the mystery it will be WSB
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