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Maybe I'm missing something but I was expecting far worse from an unexpected launch pad liftoff.

Small beach fire (3.5 acre is truly tiny... for context Louisiana permanently loses an acre of marshlands every two hours). Few chunks of concrete.

Obviously there's room for improvement here, but is this really a catastrophe compared to the normal sub/urban sprawl happening everywhere else?

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No, its not. This blog post reads like a smear piece. Complete with a leading picture of a dead bobcat that was obviously killed by a car and not a rocket

The launch pad was vaporised, a lot of particulate matter was thrown in the air and affected residents of two nearby town, as well as nearby endangered wildlife.

Also, think about what goes into making a rocket, bring all that up in the sky, and blow it up. While hard to find all health and environnemenntal risks related, I'm sure you can understand that this isn't like a 3.5 acre fire at all.

It's not the end of the world either - but accountability has to start somewhere.

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