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Silverdome comes down with a second effort

Michigan Public | By Mark Brush
Published December 4, 2017 at 5:13 PM EST
What's left of the the Pontiac Silverdome just before Sunday's implosion attempt.
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What's left of the the Pontiac Silverdome just before Sunday's implosion attempt.

If at first you don't succeed ... set another round of explosives.

The much-anticipated implosion of the Pontiac Silverdome landed with a thud yesterday morning as the run-down stadium refused to collapse after a series of explosions.

Today was a different story - WDIV has the video:
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Mark Brush
Mark Brush was the station's Digital Media Director. He succumbed to a year-long battle with glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer, in March 2018. He was 49 years old.
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