Ethan Brooks
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294 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 30 Jul
Ethan Brooks’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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A few texts from friends.
Vicki McLeod, Cody's boss at the mill, also wasn't working that day.
You can't really fault Cody's stepdad for the disbelief here.
There's plenty of great reasons to think that the mill blew up was impossible.
First of all, the mill site's about 500 acres.
The buildings cover 15 football fields, among them two 166-foot-high towers.
Be a lot to blow up.
Second, it's been in operation since 1965.
That's a 55-year unexploded streak.
But more than that, the mill blowing up just couldn't be possible.
Even in 2020, the mill was still the heart of Jay.
It was the town's biggest employer, and the taxes that came in from the mill paid for the police, fire department, trash pickup.
The mill was there in every part of life in Jay, and the consequences of losing it would be almost too much to imagine.
The dash cam footage, recorded from a truck around 11.55 a.m.
on April 15th, shows the mill in the distance.
What you can't see is a weld, one of thousands sealing what is essentially a giant pressure cooker, beginning to fail.
One moment there's blue sky, and the next... I'm just blew up.
A black column hundreds of feet high.
Scale of the explosion.
It's hard to comprehend.
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