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Of flame and smoke and thinking, oh, my god, there's no way somebody's going to live through that. >> dude, dude, dude, back up. i think that truck's going to start catching fire. >> in the back of my mind, i'm trying to figure out what's the best thing that we can do for the viewer to make them understand what we have just captured. >> it turns out johnson isn't the only tv person on scene. >> it's a news unit that he hit. >> the tractor trailer slams into an suv from another tv station parked on the side of the highway. the cameraman had just left his vehicle and narrowly escapes getting hit...

Ignite. a massive fireball launches into the air. the enormous blast consumes an entire city block and is felt for miles. thick smoke consumes the entire sky. dozens of vehicles are scorched by the inferno, and several nearby buildings are set on fire. police report 30 people, 8 of them firefighters, are injured during the disaster. incredibly, there are no fatalities. coming up -- a gas station blows sky-high. an 18-wheeler crashes and burns. and a freight train releases a vapor cloud that ignites. i've been called a control freak... i like to think of myself as more of a control... enthusi...

Would blow it into the power line. >> caleb skurtle lives across the street and starts recording the unusual event on his cell phone as his neighbors begin to gather and watch. >> hell loy [ muted ]! >> at that point, like we had already called the fire department. it seemed like most people were just kind of standing around, eyes to the sky. >> this is amazing. >> this is ridiculous. >> powerful jolts of electricity pulse through the tree, down to the ground, over and over again. >> i think it was like a 24,000 volt power line. i think that's what the energy company said. >> making matters wo...

Oil off the top of the water 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. and 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 o...

It takes 200 firefighters two full days to bring the massive fire under control. fortunately, none of the 50 employees of the chemical facility or any firefighters are injured. 209, you might want to back your unit up. >> a train carrying propylene, a highly flammable petrochemical used in manufacturing, blows up in texarcana, arkansas, early in the morning october 15, 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 ...