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=== Esparto accident === On March 20, 2009, the town of [[Esparto, California]], was shaken and windows were shattered by a blast created by {{convert|500|lb}} of [[ANFO]] during filming of the myth "[[MythBusters (2009 season)#Knock Your Socks Off|Knock Your Socks Off]]".<ref name="KCRAMarch2009">{{Cite news|url=http://www.kcra.com/news/19016582/detail.html|title=MythBusters 'Big Bang' Shatters Windows|publisher=[[KCRA-TV]]|date=March 25, 2009|access-date=December 11, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120410084003/http://www.kcra.com/news/19016582/detail.html|archive-date=April 10, 2012|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Some residents were upset that the blast took place without "telling anyone".<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=WDDB&p_theme=wddb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=127284818CE8A448&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePMn|title=What we can learn from MythBusters|newspaper=[[Daily Democrat]]|date=March 24, 2009|access-date=December 10, 2011}}</ref> Chief Barry Burns of the Esparto Fire Department had several firefighters present for the explosion. He said he made the decision not to notify anyone in town for safety's sake. "''MythBusters'' is supposed to be a really popular show. Everybody would have been out there. We would have had to cancel it because it would have been too dangerous."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kcra.com/Mythbusters-Big-Bang-Shatters-Windows/-/11798090/12688930/-/item/1/-/e06cf3z/-/index.html|title=MythBusters 'Big Bang' Shatters Windows|date=March 26, 2009|publisher=Kcra.com|access-date=June 12, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130509013159/http://www.kcra.com/Mythbusters-Big-Bang-Shatters-Windows/-/11798090/12688930/-/item/1/-/e06cf3z/-/index.html|archive-date=May 9, 2013|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Representatives from the show replaced some of the windows that same day.<ref name="KCRAMarch2009" /> The experiment did air, but the hosts recounted in a 2011 special episode ("[[MythBusters (2011 season)#Special 2 β Location, Location, Location|Location, Location, Location]]") that they have never returned to the Esparto quarry as a result of the mishap.
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