I do not know, but for a video of this length it could just be cutting Long seconds of inaction between segments.

There was about 50s of action, between the first fire and the last explosion. There were about 5 cuts in this period. If there were even only 5 seconds of nothing happening between each cut, eliminating them would have reduced the video length (of that segment, which was about half the entire video length) by 30%.

I was watching the smoke dispersion, and it does seem like time was cut out - 2 seconds? 5? 10? I don’t know, but it seems to me like it was mainly to cut out periods of inaction during which people might have gotten bored and clicked away.

There’s also a fair amount of dramatization, with digital flair added; I blame all this on the audience being brought up on action movies with nonstop explosions. Sucks for analysts, but this is propaganda[1] media.

1. I’m using “propaganda” per the definition: Information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause. It’s information wrapped in motivational entertainment-oriented editing targeted at a particular audience.

(Comment originally got attached to the wrong parent, so I moved it.)