stopped and i looked up, and i was like this ain't -- this can't be happening. i said there is no way we can put that fire out. >> what did it look like? >> it -- it looked like you was looking at the face of death. i mean, you could hear it, see it, smell it. i mean, it was like -- i mean, it was the worst thing i'd ever seen. >> how high were the flames? >> they were -- they were way up the derrick. they were probably i'm going to say 150 foot then. probably three-quarters of the way up the derrick, and i was yelling there's no way we're going to put that out. i said we're leaving here. >> that's when you knew that you had to leave? >> i knew we weren't -- even if the fire fighting equipment would have worked, we couldn't