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What's your emergency? >> there's a fire, a big fire. >> i had to ask twice to make sure i had the right address. >> the flames are about 100 feet in the air. >> i realized it was my house. >> for veteran 911 operator mike bose, this is not a typical day at the office. bose along with his parents have lived in quincy, massachusetts, for years. >> it's a nice neighborhood right across from a school. never any trouble on the street. we'd have everybody over during the holidays, christmas, thanksgiving. kids would always stop by. kids were there. it was great. >> bose always enjoys his job with t...

Smoldering. and there are toxic fumes being emitted from that facility. listen to what one first responder said. >> we are being told right now we have another tank that is caught fire. it is possibly about to explode. we are going to have to evacuate this area, right here, get everybody out of the area. >> i did not get close enough to see a lot of the damage. but the damage is very extensive. >> hours ago, we heard from governor rick peri. he said our thoughts and prayers are with the people of west and the first responders on the scene. we are joined by casey segill over the phone, about 15...

And doing more research, i found out what had happened. >> you had to drive closer to the scene to the go home, late last night. you can give our viewers, really a good idea what have you saw going home. did you see helicopters and ambulances and first responders? >> caller: yeah. definitely on the way home. i drive past hillcrest hospital, which is where they are taking a lot of casualties. there was the helicopter, taking off from there. i passed at least a dozen ambulances on -- on the way home. headed towards the hospital. not only that, there was ambulances passing me and fire trucks pass...

A small fire. apparently, water got sprayed on the ammon num nitrate and it exploded, just like -- and as the dallas morning news is reporting, like the oklahoma city bomb. so there had been an earlier incident that. apparently was under control. and thane they came back and that's when this explosion happened. we don't really have a time frame right now... of how long that was, was it an hour, half an hour? we don't know. but we do know that there was this -- this massive explosion and those firefighters there on the scene were caught in that explosion. there have been -- there have been repo...

>> there's a fire, a big fire. >> i had to ask twice to make sure i had the right address. >> the flames are about 100 feet in the air. >> i realized it was my house. >> for veteran 911 operator mike bose, this is not a typical day at the office. bose along with his parents have lived in quincy, massachusetts, for years. >> it's a nice neighborhood right across from a school. never any trouble on the street. we'd have everybody over during the holidays, christmas, thanksgiving. kids would always stop by. kids were there. it was great. >> bose always enjoys his job with the city and provides hi...