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Nowhere, the street explodes as if a giant bomb goes off. >> you could see absolutely a terrorized expression on all these people's faces because they didn't know what it was. they probably thought it was a bomb in the subway system. >> with september 11th never far from new yorkers' minds, many think the explosion is another terrorist attack. >> yeah, you think it's terrorism. that's the first thought that goes through anybody's mind. >> people run for cover as the dirt, rocks and asphalt blasts into the sky and rains down. and after the explosion, a nonstop gigantic geyser of steam shoots up...

Chest, like i got socked in the chest really hard, like just powerful, so powerful. >> get down! get down! >> it was incredibly bright and forceful. it was almost like somebody shoving you off your feet. >> oh, my god! >> oh, my god! >> people see, hear and feel the blast for miles. >> whoa! >> it was so huge. it was unbelievable. >> you can feel the heat wave and the shock wave. >> holy smokes, i hope everybody's okay! >> the axle from the propane truck launches hundreds of feet into the air and lands on a busy street, narrowly missing cars. >> i look up in the air, and i don't know. it's 100...

Office worker, runs out of his building after the explosion and sees mccullough dazed and disfigured. >> i can't get it out of my head. the whole scene just kept playing over and over and his screams and the smell that came from him, his skin burning, his flesh. it's just hard. it really is hard. >> despite the horror, suarez stays with mccullough until a paramedic comes. >> the whole time he was still screaming and screaming, and he wouldn't stop screaming. it was just really hard to hear someone scream like that. >> mccullough asks suarez for a promise. >> making the promise him he's not goi...

Explosions the city has ever seen. >> i don't know what happened to that guy who was in the truck. he was on top. >> his truck launches into the air and returns to earth with a jolting thud. >> this truck weighs 15,000 pounds by itself. so it had to be a powerful blast just for it to go up and come back down like that. >> the explosion leaves a huge crater in the middle of the street. it swallows the tow truck whole. but it's not caused by a bomb or bomber with evil intentions. >> the most likely thing that was the cause was cold water getting into the pipe, and cold water apparently causes th...

Starts right above the assistant chief's head. >> and i can remember the loud boom, the vibration in the ground and the heat on the back of my neck. >> holy cow! >> the high-voltage wires unleash a fury of arcing energy. >> the thing the tape doesn't show is the vibration. i mean, we were all, like -- it was, like, did we get shocked, or what was that? it just doesn't show how loud or how much energy was released when that thing let go. you could really feel it. it was like the bass at a rock concert. it was just shaking. >> everyone is stunned by the unbelievable surge of power and flames. >>...