Posted on July 16, 2009 at 5:20pm
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Is literally like 2 miles away from my house last night. My brother is a firefighter but just moved about 45 minutes north from me about a month ago. If he was still a firefighter near my house he would of been on scene. He is really bummed that he missed it. Me and my roomate went up the road and were literally 300-400 feet away from the blast and watched for 2 hours. The flames were HUGE! We were so close we were sweating our asses off from the heat. I took some pictures from my phone... the…
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