tucson. next, gas main explodes in philadelphia killing one worker. look at this video. look at that. crews responding to a broken line. obviously blown back in the blast. four other utility workers and a fire fighter are injured, some of whom seriously. still no word yet as to what sparked that explosion. next, two people are dead after a small plane crashes into an rv park. this whole thing happening near north myrtle beach. we re told the plane clipped a tree, hit a vehicle and then landed inside a trailer. police are telling us the pilot was killed, along with the woman inside the camper. one witness says the plane was, quote, screaming full tilt before that crash. next, take a look at this with me. it s a laser. it is blasting a bright green image at an aircraft. look, it may seem harmless, but that light contemporarily can blind a pilot putting everybody on a plane or helicopter at
mushroom cloud, that is how one witness described a massive explosion in a california neighborhood. we ve got new details from the scene right after this break. the fireball was, you know, a hundred feet or more in the air, and it just would not stop, so we know it was some kind of gas main. it just kept going, literally a hundred feet flames, it was amazing. all the windows in the house shook and the house felt like it was shaking, it was that strong. the flames came up stories high. let me tell you about a very important phone call i made.
scene. neighbors blocks away felt the explosion, people say it sounded like a jet engine over the top of them, flames literally leaping not only from the gas fire, but you have two separate fires here. you ve got the gas fire, but also the fires that were in these homes. so firefighters have a very difficult situation. i just met a neighbor named dennis, give me your last name. castan, nzo. you live in a neighborhood overlooking this place? 75-100 yards from where the gas main exploded. reporter: as we show some of the video from last height and the pictures of these flames in some cases shooting 250 feet in the air, tell me what it was like. people were literally running down the street. you know what? we thought it was an earthquake at first, so i ran outside. i was in my garage, and the next thing you know, i mean, the intense heat hits you. it was so hot, i ve never felt anything like it in my life. you couldn t stand there. everybody was just running out of their houses
is. she burned her arms, and that was from the heat from the fire. she never had contact with the fire itself, it was that bad. you couldn t stand there and look at it from 100 yards away. it was just the loudest rumbling you ve ever heard. houses were shaking. we still thought it was an earthquake, and then someone said there was an airplane that had crashed, but it turns out it was a gas main. reporter: dennis, i know you re worried about your neighbors, and he s been talking about that as well. guys, that s the first thing they say, about their neighbors, how are they doing? dennis did confirm one thing, i just got shown some pictures that one of the fire crews took a couple of feet away from normally where a mailbox would sit. we ve covered a lot of fires here, the home wasn t just burned down, it was incinerated. i ve never seen a fire burn that hot. dennis said they d go up in a matter of seconds, guys. jon: unbelievable. an absolute inferno. adam houseley, thank you for that
rebecca riskin. her death confirmed today. and now, they turn to the grim task of salvaging keepsakes from a home invaded by mud, rocks and death. the family accepting all the help it could get. you know, i know at least i hope that she knows that i was giving everything i could to find her. reporter: santa barbara county officials only issued their emergency alert nearly 20 minutes after the mudslides began. many did not heed the voluntary evacuation warnings. given the freak nature of the downpour, it might not have mattered anyway. they screwed up big time. they should have they should have said anyone in the floodplain should get the hell out. and matt gutman with us again tonight. matt, those conditions are so grueling that we know rescuers still haven t been able to search the entire area yet. reporter: that s right, david. and what you re seeing behind me is basically ground zero for these mudslides. just one of them came tearing through here, steamrolling through