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The barriers. >> see you in a couple weeks. >> the greatest thing we give them is hope. to nominate a hero please visit our website. and now to this incredible video, where a seemingly contained house fire turned on to a full-on explosion. look at this. crews say it was a backdraft from the homes laundry room. the mother and child who lived there, were told theyre safe but joining me now is brian henry, a texarkana fireman who went inside the home during the explosion. brian, thank you so mu...

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Oh wouchltw. you can see it there a home explodes at moment a firefighter rushes inside the building. there was a back draft that blew out insulation from the home as firefighters opened the door. amazingly no one was hurt. a mother and her 1-year-old child escaped just moments before. what heroes there. from life-saving drones coming to a beach near you. fire officials in pompano beach are testing them for water rescues. during the investigation, the drone dropped off a life raft to a swimmer...

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Back draft. >> so within a split second, the door slammed, and the window on the second floor has started to blow out of its frame. glass and debris is flying across the street. followed by a big flame. >> no firefighters or residents are injured. once the fires are out, investigator clarks work begins. he discovers that the back draft was caused by a growing criminal enterprise, copper wire theft. >> what we do know about these properties at the time of the fire is electricity was supplied to t...

The street. >> copper wire theft is a massive problem worldwide. in the uk alone, nearly 1 billion dollars of copper wire is stolen every year and sold for profit. in this case, the way the thief cut the cable caused the gas leak. the gas then mixes with air. and the result is an explosive combination that blows the roof right off the house. a back draft. and a caught on camera moment chris clark will never forget. >> its certainly not a normal incident. there are a number of factors that sugges...

Has a very high resistance and acted like an electrical fuse, basically melting. two houses next door to each other, both with gas meters on fire, unusual circumstances to be sure. but from there, it gets even more unusual from a fire investigators point of view. >> the fires developed in such a way that the two small fires that are being dealt with. and then within a few minutes, the third house up, the door is slightly open. and all of a sudden, you can see the front door slam into the door fr...

Door slammed, and the window on the second floor has started to blow out of its frame. glass and debris is flying across the street. followed by a big flame. >> no firefighters or residents are injured. once the fires are out, investigator clarks work begins. he discovers that the back draft was caused by a growing criminal enterprise, copper wire theft. >> what we do know about these properties at the time of the fire is electricity was supplied to the houses by overhead copper cables. they wer...

And then its flicked back, down the street. >> copper wire theft is a massive problem worldwide. in the uk alone, nearly 1 billion dollars of copper wire is stolen every year and sold for profit. in this case, the way the thief cut the cable caused the gas leak. the gas then mixes with air. and the result is an explosive combination that blows the roof right off the house. a back draft. and a caught on camera moment chris clark will never forget. >> its certainly not a normal incident. there are...

I need rescue. >> the force of the explosion blows firefighters to the ground. >> i remember hearing another one of our battalion chiefs that was near me calling for ambulances. i thought, oh, boy, this is not good. >> officials believe the massive explosion is caused by a back draft that ignited the volatile magnesium dust. >> the degree of smoke, the color of it, the way it was puffing out of the building, it had all the right looks and the right recipe for that to just instantaneously blow. >...