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A resident walks past a car parked amid debris at a site demolished as part of a street widening project in Taiyuan, China, May 6. The site used to be the parking lot of a local company. The owner of the car could not be reached for over 10 days, so workers were told to carry on demolition operations around the car, according to local media.
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Spectators on the mountains between UTEP and I-10 get a close-up view of the ASARCO smokestack demolition, Friday, April 13, in El Paso, Texas.
A demolition team toppled two landmark smokestacks that have long towered over the now-defunct ASARCO copper smelter in Texas. Three hundred pounds of dynamite were used to bring down the 600-ft and 829-ft tall chimneys early Saturday. The chimneys were demolished as part of the smelter cleanup plan.
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Spectators who watched the ASARCO smokestacks fall try to avoid inhaling dust created Saturday morning.
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The tallest of the two ASARCO smokestacks makes its way toward the ground 10 seconds after the smaller of the two stacks hit.
Rudy Gutierrez / The El Paso Times via AP
The 828-foot former ASARCO stack comes down.
Victor Calzada / The El Paso Times via AP
An ASARCO smokestack heads to the ground near Interstate 10.
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The South Bay Power Plant implodes in Chula Vista, California on February 2.
You can see a video of this demolition at NBC Los Angeles.
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Dust rises after a building was demolished in Haikou, south China's Hainan province on Dec. 25. For the past two years, China has sought to control residential property prices with measures including restrictions on second and third home purchases, higher minimum down payments, and annual taxes in some cities on multiple and non locally-owned homes.
VIDEO: Explosives bring down airline building in China
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A crowd watches as Denmark's second-tallest building, a 108-meter-tall gas container in Copenhagen, is demolished on Nov. 4. The container had not been in use since 2007. The demolition was carried out by British specialist, John M. Faulkner with the Precision Demolition Company, and the structure fell in only eight seconds.
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Philippine National Police officers and SWAT team members try to arrest resisting informal settlers during the demolition of their shanty in Taguig city, Sept. 20, east of Manila, Philippines.
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Residents living in a squatters area throw rocks at police and a demolition crew in Taguig, Metro Manila Sept. 20.
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Police seek cover behind their shields during a clash with residents of a squatters area in Taguig, Metro Manila Sept. 20.
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Police detain a resident during a protest in a squatters area in Taguig, Metro Manila Sept. 20.
Squatters and police clashed on Thursday as residents tried to stop the demolition of their homes to make way for the development of a high-end housing development in Taguig City, eastern Manila in the Philippines. The informal settlers' community of mostly retired police and military personnel was demolished to pave the way for new development projects.
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An old 80 metre high office building of Kunming municipal government is demolished in directional blasting on Dec. 25, in Kunming, Yunnan Province of China.
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Dust rises as an old office building of Kunming municipal government is demolished in directional blasting on Dec. 25, in Kunming, Yunnan Province of China. The area will become a business center after directional blasting.
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People walk past the debris after an old office building of Kunming municipal government was demolished in directional blasting on Dec. 25, in Kunming, Yunnan Province of China.
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City administration bureau personnel look on as excavators are used to demolish buildings in a residential area in Wuhan, Hubei province, Nov. 16. Local authorities classified a total of 80 buildings as illegally constructed structures, and the demolition was carried out under the supervision of police and the city administration bureau
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Bill Lackey / Springfield News-Sun via AP
The former Ohio Edison Mad River Power Plant’s 275-foot smoke stack in Springfield, Ohio falls toward spectators and surrounding buildings as it falls the wrong way during its demolition, Nov. 10, 2010. There were no injuries reported in the accident but power was knocked out for more than 8000 customers when the smoke stack crushed several pieces of power equipment.
See a video of the demolition below.
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