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4:00 in the morning. it quickly spreads into a seemingly bottomless pit of flames, and exploding cylinders of propane. when we got to the scene, we actually had small cylinders that were exploding and rocketing several hundred feet in the air. in the predawn darkness, huge you clouds of propane flare up like dark smoke billows from the uncontrollable blaze. canisters shoot up like rockets. most of them were the smaller cylinders. they are commonly called a 33-pound cylinder. this site had hundreds and hundreds of those on site and that s what was rocketing up in the air. my biggest concern was where was the staff, because we couldn t see them coming down. the fire began at a 24 hour propane supply business. there was an accident and it released a large amount of propane so that cloud found an ignition source and that was a vapor cloud explosion. there was a tremendous amount of force. the initial explosion severely damages several nearby houses. residents are awakened fro ....
Burned. fortunately, the train explodes just outside of town and no one is injured by the blast. another mile down the road, it had been right here in the middle of our town. it could have been a really messy deal. after the explosion, the fire eventually burns itself out. all 26 years of flying and all the news that i ve covered, it will be one of the things that will stick in my mind just from the fact it was such a large ball of fire and it came so high. oh, it just blew up. my god! my god! whether the cause is mechanical failure or human error, when combustible materials get out of control, you can expect big fires, big explosions and big booms. i m contessa brewer. that s all for this edition of caught on camera. ....
With a horsehead pump that was several feet away from it. that s how intense the heat was. fire officials soon learn the train cars are carrying crude oil and ethanol. we went ahead and evacuated two miles downwind and a mile each side of it just to make sure that everybody was out of any kind of smoke cloud or anything else. huge flames spew from the super-heated inferno and thick dark smoke fills the sky. pan back. pan back. pan back. we just had a huge explosion. it really kind of surprised us, caught us off guard. suddenly, one of the train cars explodes in a gigantic plume of fire. just blew up. my god! my god! it was just unbelievable. i m at 1,000 feet and i m thinking this is not stopping. it just keeps growing and growing. pretty soon i m looking out my door level with this huge mushroom cloud. ....
we even had the entire drywall ceilings completely flattened, knocked out of the ceiling of a house and flat down on the floor or over the beds and this type of thing in the adjacent area. but an even bigger explosion is brewing. there are several huge tanker trucks at the facility, each filled with as much as 30,000 gallons of propane. soon after the fire starts, one of the tanks explodes. look at that! look at the fire! holy [ bleep ]! oh, my god. the explosion is caught on camera by andrew bishop. holy [ bleep ]. it looked like those videos they use in movies of like a nuclear explosion, just like dropping an atom bomb or something, mushroom clouds. seemed unreal. the initial blast that starts the fire wakes andrew up and he begins recording the scene from his balcony. woke me up so hard-core. i thought it could have been an earthquake or maybe something hit my building or something like that. i had no clue that like anything ....
the explosion was it was just pretty amazing. i haven t seen flames or smoke go that high before. the massive eruption catches firefighters by surprise. all of us just kind of looked up like wow. we heard it, we felt it. just the heat off of it was unimaginable. then it was like well, what are we going to do next. do we need to start moving people farther back. even though the firefighters are a safe distance away, they feel the intense heat of the explosion. we were a half mile away and it felt like somebody opened an oven door. it was a big bang, then you just felt the heat and saw the flames shooting through the air. jim feels the heat in the chopper. we have a little sliding window on the side of the helicopter doors on the front, you know, to get air. i actually had one slid back on the co-pilot s side. you could actually feel the heat come through that little window when it passed us. very hot, very intense. anybody, if they had been on the ground close to it sp ....