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ELI5 How do spaceship parts fall without damaging surrounding areas or hurting anyone?

Not sure if the right flair, but when you see a rocket ship take off some of the parts fall off as it goes up. How do those heavy pieces of metal fall back to earth safely without hurting anyone or destroying property?
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Launches (US and Europe launchers) typically happen from a location where the discarded stages can fall in the ocean, and before a launch that area is cleared and people are warned to not enter. A similar thing is done in Russia's but over uninhabited desert. And China just... Doesn't really give a shit so their stuff falls near remote villages all the time.

And stages discarded at higher altitudes burn up on reentry.