Inside the bitter feud roiling the doomsday bunker business

Zerb Mellish for BI

At the end of an unnamed private road in Red River County, on a brisk fall day in 2019, Texas fire marshals approached the site of an explosion. Chunks of concrete littered the ground, while smaller debris hung in the surrounding trees. An aluminum door, blown off its hinges, had come to rest 50 feet from the site of the blast: an underground bunker that had been dug deep into the East Texas soil.