we went out the back, out of the back yard and we've seen the stucco from my neighbor's house popping off of it from the heat and we ran around the side of the house and went up the street. as we opened our gate to go out in the street, the fence was already on fire. >> can i just ask you, bob, were you, when you first saw what happened, was there panic? were you screaming for everyone to get out? what was going on? >> at first i thought something happened like a plane crash or something, but then you didn't hear anything until the explosion happened, which made me determine it must have been something along the lines, you've seen shows with like gas leaks and stuff like that. this was a really intense flame, though. nothing like i have ever experienced or seen in my life. i hope i never see again. mayor bob went through a very scary situation because he wasn't sure what happened to his brother that was in the house