Video Captures Massive Pressure Tank Explosion; 7 LA Firefighters Injured, Multiple ‘Critically’

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A massive truck explosion injured a number of Los Angeles firefighters, two of them critically, early Thursday morning in the city’s Wilmington neighborhood.

KABC-TV reported the blast occurred just before 7 a.m. local time as units with the Los Angeles Fire Department were dispatched to the scene of a fire in a semi-truck fueled by compressed natural gas.

Minutes after several fire engines arrived, the truck exploded near the intersection of Alameda Street and Henry Ford Avenue.

The area of the city is several miles south of downtown Los Angeles and several miles east of Los Angeles International Airport.

A nearby doorbell camera caught the moment of the blast.

The footage shows the truck emitting a column of smoke before a fireball erupted high into the air.

The explosion was followed by a power flash from a nearby electric transformer.

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