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Explosion, we felt itlet. it was pretty intense. >> both the sheriff and leiutenant lee survived the explosion with only middle eastern injuries. >> i don't know how we survived. that convinced me that there was somebody up there that wanted me to stay here a little longer. >> terry rossland has burns over 70% of his wide but he too survives >> i did not have any idea he actually survived that explosion. after seeing that there was no way that anybody could live through that. but he did. >> rossland takes his own life before his trial gens. >> it was unfortunate, i wish we could have done more...

This was not stopping. i'm level with this mushroom cloud. >> the explosion was pretty amazing. i hadn't seen flame and smoke go that high before. >> it catches firefighters by surprise. >> it's like wow! we heard it. we felt it. and heat off of it was unimaginable. what are we going to do next? >> 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 door and you felt the heat. >> jim feels the heat from the chopper. >> you have them on the side of the doors in front. i actually had one that...

Several hundred feet away. that's how intense the heat was. >> the train cars are carrying oil and ethanol. >> just to make sure everybody was out of the smoke or anything else. >> huge name spew from the super-heated inferno and thick, dark smoke fills the sky. >> pan back! we had a huge explosion. >> suddenly one of the train cars explodes in a gigantic plume of fire. >> it just blew up. my god! my god! >> it was unbelievable. i'm at 1,000 feet and i thought

Blevy. >> the fire burns itself out. the disaster zone isn't safe for more than a month. >> over the next 36 days, we were still on scene because there were thousands of 100 pound cylinders that could have been damaged once you start to move them, they could explode. >> one employee is killed in the fire and a fire fighter dies of a heart attack. the enormous inferno leaves its mark on canada's largest city. >> this was a six alarm fire in toronto and we've had six alarm fires for high rise buildings, factories and other things like that. this was certainly a significant event because it wasn'...

First times a boilover type of explosion had been caught on tape. >> a boilover can occur during air tank fires because oil is lighter than water t. water pumped onto the burning oil tank sinks to the bottom where it eventually boils into steam and explodes, propelling the flameing oil on top into the sky and the surrounding area. >> where were you at when the explosion happened? >> flipping the nozzles on the tank. it started to boil over. be i the time we noticed it was going to boil over, we backed down, it was too late. it caught us. >> it was a pad damad dash for survival. heat was so int...