soon, a crowd gathers and several other people also start to record the growing fire. the flames get higher. the smoke, thicker. the police and everyone started to get a little worried about the amount of people that were standing, just watching and filming. the chaotic scene spirals out of control. it s going. it s going! then the flames reach a massive amount of fuel and the gas station erupts. i ve never seen anything that big. it was a bit of a shock and sort of stunned me for a second to see such a big fireball go straight up. before the blast, simpson is about 40 feet from the huge cloud of fire. it seemed like a safe distance.
inside runs for their lives. where there s smoke, there s fire. seconds later, the truck explodes. more than 100 firefighters respond to the disaster but there s little they can do besides let the fire burn itself out. missile parts litter the road. officials say the explosion is actually caused by the truck s gas tank rupturing, not the solid rocket fuel which burns up in the fire. fortunately, everyone inside the tunnel is able to make it out before the blast, and there are no casualties. january 18th, 2011. a tv news cameraman s videotaping workers responding to a gas leak in the tacony neighborhood of philadelphia when all of a sudden, the ground erupts. all you see is just this
respond to the disaster, but there s little they can do besides let the fire burn itself out. missile parts litter the road. officials say the explosion is actually caused by the truck s gas tank rupturing, not the solid rocket fuel which burns up in the fire. fortunately, everyone inside the tunnel is able to make it out before the blast, and there are no casualties. january 18th, 2011. a tv news cameraman s videotaping workers responding to a gas leak in the tacony neighborhood of philadelphia 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.
then the flames reach a massive amount of fuel and the gas station erupts. i ve never seen anything that big. it was a bit of a shock and sort of stunned me for a second to see such a big fireball go straight up. before the blast, simpson is about 40 feet from the huge cloud of fire. it seemed like a safe distance. now, he s not so sure. when the explosion happened and i felt the heat and i decided to back away and put cars and a wall between me and the fire. just hide behind. we ll be all right. firefighters are dangerously close to the explosion, but somehow, they survive. the firefighters that were literally ten feet away from the truck, the explosion was on the other side of the truck to where the firefighters were.
it s going. it s going! then the flames reach a massive amount of fuel and the gas station erupts. i ve never seen anything that big. it was a bit of a shock and sort of stunned me for a second to see such a big fireball go straight up. before the blast, simpson is about 40 feet from the huge cloud of fire. it seemed like a safe distance. now, he s not so sure. when the explosion happened and i felt the heat and i decided to back away and put cars and a wall between me and the fire. just hide behind. we ll be all right. firefighters are dangerously close to the explosion, but somehow, they survive. the firefighters that were literally ten feet away from the truck, the explosion was on the other side of the truck to where the firefighters were.