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When all of a sudden the ground erupts. >> all you see is just this flash of light and this giant plume of smoke just rocket up into the sky, followed shortly by fire and sparkles of light and just debris falling all around. >> cameraman jeff nichols captures the yellow-orange fireball. the explosion blows dangerous chunks of concrete and other debris into the air. >> you can see in the left corner of the screen that this panel of debris just kind of floats down from the sky and hits one gentleman in the back. >> nichols arrives at the scene 20 minutes before the blast, expecting to capture ut...

Coverage for land and sea. now, that's progressive. may 15, 2009. a tanker truck carrying more than 10,000 gallons of gasoline catches fire while making a delivery to a gas station in maddington, western australia, a small suburb of perth. firefighters do their best to control the fire, but both the truck and the service station are fully engulfed in flames. >> the flames got really big. the flames were about 50 feet in the air. >> simon simpson works in the

A surveillance camera silently 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 maybe 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 h...

August 16, 2009. a fire breaks out at a warehouse on the trans-alaska highway in fort st. john, british columbia. >> we had no idea what was in there really. just the color of the smoke was a clear indicator that it had a heavy hydrocarbon base to it. >> firefighters soon learn of a hidden danger. large quantities of methanol, a highly flammable liquid, are inside the warehouse. >> 138 barrels of a methanol-based product that were being stored there for delivery, and there was other products in there that were acid-based products. even the residual atmosphere around the building also became ve...

That you're wondering, is debris going to fall on me? are there metal shards and roofing going to cut me or hit me right in the body? >> falling debris isn't the only thing to worry about. nichols fears there could be another explosion. >> part of you wanted to flee because your instinct is to run away from these things, especially getting hit with a heat wave in the face. part of you, as a journalist, as a videographer, wants to stay. >> the fire, fueled by the leaking gas, continues to burn uncontrollably. nichols records the dramatic scene and soon learns the story has taken a tragic turn. ...