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Margaret, christi and i were just talking, this thing moved. i mean, we have never seen a fire spread so quickly. do we know how this started? >> yeah, christi and victor, the winds did not help this situation here. they picked up, and they made the fire spread really, really fast. we don't know what caused the fire yet. we do know that investigators are on the ground. they're actually going through the destruction that you can see behind me right now. they're sorting everything into separate piles and going through all the evidence. the ocean county prosecutors are take the lead on this. and ...

>> absolutely there are flames on the boardwalk right now with a fire apparatus pouring water on them right now. >> and -- >> this is going on now for probably about 2:15, about 2:15 is probably the first signs of smoke coming out of the ice cream shop on the corner. >> i was talking to the mayor earlier. a lot of the buildings are connected and that's why the fire spread so quickly? >> a lot of them -- the boardwalk they are all connected and also sitting on the boardwalk and we had -- we had a wind that was basically blowing the presift wind and the wind goes under the boardwalk and the fuel...

It's right now something that they think will take 24 to 46 hours and the town of seaside heights declared a state of emergency to free up more assets to bring in here like state police and state apparatus to help the next 24 to 46 hours. >> buildings are burning. this is not contained? >> absolutely there are flames on the boardwalk right now with a fire apparatus pouring water on them right now. >> and -- >> this is going on now for probably about 2:15, about 2:15 is probably the first signs of smoke coming out of the ice cream shop on the corner. >> i was talking to the mayor earlier. a lot...

We're taking water from all the municipalities that surround us to fight this fire. it's right now something that they think will take 24 to 46 hours to get this in place. the town of seaside heights declared a state of emergency to free up more assets to bring in here like state police and state apparatus to help the next 24 to 46 hours. >> buildings are burning. this is still out of control? this is not contained? >> absolutely, absolutely. there are flames on the boardwalk right now with a fire apparatus pouring water on them right now. >> and -- >> this is going on now for probably about 2...

Extinguisher out there. grabbed the jacket off it. we pulled the pin. >> in less than ten seconds, corey single handedly snuffs the fire, saving the gas station, surrounding home and everyone nearby. >> i don't like to think about what could have happened had i not gotten that fire out when i did. it could have been catastrophic. >> with disaster averted, one question remains, what caused the fire? reviewing the security tape, investigators believe it's caused by gas vapors that had built up near the nozzle. >> one kid leans in where the gas is being pumped, sticks his hand in there, and the n...