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>> i heard it erupt inside the tank before the flare went off. that's what startled me, got my attention. at that time, we was basically looking for an escape route. >> somehow, firefighters survive the cloud of flames with only minor injuries. >> we had a sprained ankle, extended knee. i had slight hearing loss in my left ear. it come back shortly after that. our firefighting experience helped but the grace of god was -- was the main reason. >> the tall tank in the middle called the gun barrel separates oil from water. the explosion occurs when the oil, made dangerously hot by the fire, flows...

Of a fuel line leak at the petroleum processing facility. flames shoot more than 100 feet into the air. the shock wave is felt for miles, including at the nearby fire station. >> my first impression was that one of the firefighters here had made driven one of the fire trucks into the building. it shook the building that hard. >> minutes later, the firefighters are at the scene of the blast. >> you could see flames. flames were visible into the refinery and heavy black smoke coming out of the refinery. >> workers at the refinery are able to shut off the hydrogen gas that's fueling the flames, a...

Fortunately, none of the 50 employees of the chemical facility or any firefighters are injured. >> you might want to back your units up. >> a train carrying propylene, a highly flammable petrochemical used in manufacturing blows up in texarcana, arkansas early in the morning, october 15th, 2005. a police car's dashboard camera captures the massive explosion. with no time to turn around, the officer throws his car into reverse and races backwards to escape the growing river of fire coming right at him. >> it was quite massive. just as far as you could see, just nothing but flames. >> the disast...

And dumps it into two holding tanks on the east end of the facility. >> the video shows the super-heated glob of oil funnel from the gun barrel into the holding tank, where it ignites the raw crude inside. seconds later, the flare erupts. then the tank blows up. >> it went up over our heads. i'm going to say every bit of 200 feet high. i could still see the tank today with fire coming out of the bottom of it as it's spinning going through the air. it landed about 75 or 80 yards away from us. we were very fortunate it didn't come down on one of our personnel or our apparatus. >> the tank next t...

Captures an explosion at the silver eagle refinery in woods cross, utah. the enormous blast is the result of a fuel line leak at the petroleum processing facility. flames shoot more than 100 feet into the air. the shock wave is felt for miles, including at the nearby fire station. >> my first impression was that one of the firefighters here had made driven one of the fire trucks into the building. it shook the building that hard. >> minutes later, the firefighters are at the scene of the blast. >> you could see flames. flames were visible into the refinery and heavy black smoke coming out of t...