Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20131225:12:02:00
On the lotter, 700 tanks filled with compressed gas, including oxygen, helium and the hottest burning gases of all acetylene. >> acetylene burns at about 3,400 degrees. it's used as far as what the common person knows mostly in welding and cutting. >> local tv news cameras record the blaze as it burns out of control. >> we didn't, of course, realize the scope of what the fire was going to be. >> the fire begins during the delivery of tanks to the refilling station. >> the delivery driver comes running in, he says, man, i got a leak. i think i broke a valve. i can't shut it off. what do you wan...