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Occurring and it really, it really changed the way i look at fire fires. >> coming up, a high speed case ends in a fireball. a suicide bomber pulls the trigger. >> i thought i saw three people die. >> a propane factory unleashes a shock wave is. >> holy -- it looked like those videos you use in movies like a nuclear explosion. >> and a train blows sky high. >> it just blew up. my god. my god! >> when "caught on camera -- boom!" continues.

Iranians. its an exact parallel to what happened with north korea when the state department team was duped, patted themselves all the way to the koreans nuclear explosion. today both saudis and israelis, who never agree on anything, are calling this a stupid deal. apparently the seam people who told him the website would work, also told him this would work. >> first of all, this is a big difference. first of all, israel was not looking down the barrel and saying no way. number two, inspectors on...

This before. i couldnt even imagine something like this occurring. and it really -- it really changed the way i look at fires. coming up, a high-speed chase. >> oh! >> ends in a fire ball. a suicide bomber pulls the trigger. >> i thought i saw three people die. a factory unleashes a shock wave. >> holy [ muted ]. >> it looked like those videos they use in movies of, like, a nuclear explosion. >> and a train blows sky high. >> it just blew up. my god! my god! >> when "caught on camera: boom" ...

Several hundred feet away from it. thats how intense the heat was. >> fire officials soon learn the train cars are carrying crude oil and ethanol. >> we went ahead and evacuated two miles downwind and a mile each side of it just to make sure that everybody was out of any kind of smoke cloud or anything else. >> huge flames spew from the super-heated inferno and thick dark smoke fills the sky. >> pan back. pan back. pan back. we just had a huge explosion. >> it really kind of surprised us, caught...

Firefighters can prevent a boilover from happening by making sure the water sprayed on the tank drains out the bottom. this time, they miss calculate. >> what do you think caused the explosion? >> just water >> despite the chaos, davids instincts kick in. he keeps taping as he runs away from the intense heat and flames. >> for a split second i thought this is it. how i had the presence of mind to point the camera backwards and run, to this day, i cant explain it but i thought this is it, i bette...

I dont know, craziness. >> the fire melts the steel surrounding the tank, followed by the massive relies of propane. the explosion is called blevy. >> the steel will weaken because of the heating. it ruptures, and that pressurized gas is released very, very quickly. >> the fire department tries to keep the other tanks from exploding by cooling them with water. >> you put the water where the flame is impinging on the steel to keep that steel cool. youre controlling the fire. youre not really putt...

I havent seen flames or smoke go that high before. >> the massive eruption catches firefighters by surprise. >> all of us just kind of looked up like wow. >> we heard it, we felt it. just the heat off of it was unimaginable. then it was like well, what are we going to do next. do we need to start moving people farther back. >> even though the firefighters are a safe distance away, they feel the intense heat of the explosion. >> we were a half mile away and it felt like somebody opened an oven do...

Explodes just outside of town and no one is injured by the blast. >> another mile down the road, it had been right here in the middle of our town. it could have been a really messy deal. >> after the explosion, the fire eventually burns itself out. >> all 26 years of flying and all the news that ive covered, it will be one of the things that will stick in my mind just from the fact it was such a large ball of fire and it came so high. >> oh, it just blew up. my god! my god! >> whether the cause ...

>> both the sheriff and lieutenant survived the explosion with only minor injuries. >> i dont know how we survived. that convinced me that there was somebody up there that wanted me to stay here a little bit longer. >> terry rossland has burns over 70% of his body, but he, too, survives. >> i did not have any idea that he actually survived that explosion. after seeing that, i was, there was no way that anybody could live through that. but he did. >> rossland takes his own life before his trial b...

I remember just is this audible whoa came out of me. because it was so spectacular. >> at the high rate of speed he was going, at the angle he clipped that light post, i think thats what ruptured the gas tank. >> the pickup first clips another truck coming out of a parking lot, then hits the light pole and explodes in front of the diner. >> big ball of fire. it was huge. we thought we were gone. >> debbie is work being the grill. >> that was the day i thought i was going to die. >> the car explo...