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Once we knew what it was, we started thinking maybe we should leave. eventually we didn't leave because we knew the smoke was blowing away from us. it did make me a little bit nervous. >> after enduring six hours of punishing heat and flames, firefighters almost completely contain the blaze. and the haz-mat team releases it results. the air quality is not a threat to the community. >> our personnel were there for approximately five, almost six hours before we cleared it. we determined there was nothing above the threshold limit. there were nuisance odor but nothing above what would be consider...

Begin immediately after the accident. workers rush to contain contaminated water and other chemicals to prevent them from running off into sewers. >> so we turned it over to the private entities that brought out their back trucks and soil remediation equipment. they'll be there for a good while trying to make this back into an inert, safe area and once again to conduct operations. >> weeks after the fire, the town returns to it daily routine. but this horrific industrial accident won't be easily forgotten. >> now, it's just a bunch of charred remains. and it smells quite bad. i think it's goin...

Of natural gas continues to feed the fire. crews battle the blaze from both ground and air but are about to face a new problem. darkness. >> after it got dark, it gets a lot harder to fight the fires because you're not seeing where the smoke is. >> so the firefighters were up against an enormous challenge dealing with the conditions, the light going away, diminishing, and not being able to get close enough to search for people who might have survived. >> 7:45 p.m. an hour and a half after the devastating explosion, the gas line feeding the fireball is shut off. by midnight, all that remains is...

>> bill hudder hears the blast from inside his apartment and along with his neighbors steps into the street to investigate. >> i pulled out my camera. this fireball just kept coming and coming. it didn't seem like there was any end to it. >> everybody get back! >> and i was just standing there in amazement. looked like something out of a movie when i first saw it. >> charlie barringer and ron lavezzo are among the first firefighters to arrive. they have nearly 50 years of experience between them. but this fire is unlike anything they've ever seen. >> i was kind of astounded by the range of the...

>> i mean, to see a car on fire, maybe you can see that, but to see a firefighter in an explosion next to him and doing nothing, i would never expect to see such a thing. you know? and imagine the dangers that they're just going through, you know? i really appreciate their courage. a team of firefighters faces one of its greatest fears, a flashover. >> that's the closest i ever want to come to near death experience. >> october 3rd, 2011. a blaze breaks out at a bistro in franklin, ohio. firefighter quincy pearson heads into the smoke-filled restaurant to fight what appears to be a kitchen fi...