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>> i remember hearing another one of our battalion chiefs that was near me calling for ambulances. i thought, oh, boy, this is not good. >> officials believe the massive explosion is caused by a back draft that ignited the volatile magnesium dust. >> the degree of smoke, the color of it, the way it was puffing out of the building, it had all the right looks and the right recipe for that to just instantaneously blow. >> cameraman matt armitage is shooting the explosion for indiana's news channel. >> all of a sudden smoke started pouring out of the building all at once. that's when i started rol...

That's horrible. >> the explosion rocks nearby buildings and businesses across the street, just a few hundred feet away. >> the whole building shook. the whole building shook. you could definitely tell that something was not right. it definitely sounded like maybe >> there's this huge billowing black cloud of smoke. it was just amazing. >> we knew it was going to be a very big fire. >> we have flames shooting over the roof. >> it was pretty impressive and it was noisy. >> first responders find the propane-filled tanker truck engulfed in flames when they arrive. >> tanker full of propane and a ...

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...

To be prepared for that. >> the explosion continues for several hundred feet, shooting out sparks and blowing out a transformer. >> watch out, jason! >> another firefighter dives out of the way to avoid being electrocuted. >> watch out, jason! >> went up the street. it kept going up -- there was a transformer up the block, and there was another fire department guy up there. you could see him run and jump over the snow bank to get out of the way of it. >> the bursting heat and energy vaporizes everything in its path. >> if you look at it in slow motion, there's sparks showering down. it melted ...

>> gregory's tow truck is parked right above the epicenter of one of the biggest underground 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...