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Cop Dash Cam Captures Train Explosion

This is amazing video of a huge tanker explosion caught on cop dash cam. In 2005, a Union Pacific train car derailed and hit a tanker carrying gas. The fire comes rushing towards the cop car and you can see the police try to back up as quickly as they can.

 
 
 

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Uploaded Jan. 22, 2009 by
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A cop dash cam records a propylene tanker explosion in the aftermath of the 2005 derailment and chemical leak of a Union Pacific train in Texarkana. The explosion caught on police car video involved seven empty train cars and a tanker containing flammable gas that rear ended another train. The explosion from the derailment killed one person and many had to evacuate nearby homes. The cop dash cam captures on video the huge explosion and resulting smoke. Watch as the police car has to back up quickly to escape the fire.

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  • Otho

    Otho - 3 years ago

    I was in bed at Station Two and had to go help clean this up! We had one DOA at the house where the propylene found it's ignition source. The chemical fumes were heavier than air and ran down the creek and accross a parking lot. Several vehicles that ran into the fumes died from lack of oxygen, but luckily the people ran out of the fumes before the explosion. More pictures are at " Iaff Local 502" website. Otho

  • chriswp289p

    chriswp289p - 3 years ago

    209 you might wanna back your unit up.

  • KUKLUXKLANfolife

    KUKLUXKLANfolife - 3 years ago

    He probably thought it was Al Quaida and was gonna reverse back to his village and tell the others. Gogogo!

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    TooCrooked

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    TooCrooked - 3 years ago

     i liked the part where he blared his siren for a moment.. i guess he was going to arrest the explosion?

    • BarrackObama

      BarrackObama - 3 years ago

      @TooCrookeddrink bleach!

    • Signious

      Signious - 3 years ago

      @TooCrookedthat or you can hear them ask him to sound the siren so the other police in the area have a half decent idea of where the heck he is... and yes - drink bleach, obama's orders

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    spanishstandards

    spanishstandards - 3 years ago

    whats the reverse driving for?

    • vdrinker08

      vdrinker08 - 3 years ago

      @spanishstandardspraise his driving. if he had done a u-turn we wouldnt see shit

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    zefe

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    zefe - 3 years ago

     damn stupid shit happens down there in the US :D blow ya up

    • R0n_Mexico

      R0n_Mexico - 3 years ago

      @zefeand someone from czech has a lot of room to talk

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    popo4reel - 3 years ago

    i am friends with this officer, in fact i was working at this time.....i was about 3 miles from this when it took place

    • Raft3rman

      Raft3rman - 3 years ago

      @popo4reelI once sat in the same chair that Britney Spears once looked at AND I have a playstation

    • TheGuyWhoYelledJudas

      TheGuyWhoYelledJudas - 3 years ago

      @popo4reelMore proof that there is a McDonald's within every 3 square miles.

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    Nugburner420

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    Nugburner420

    Nugburner420 - 3 years ago

    MY CHAIR SMELLS LIKE POOP

    • Dubado

      Dubado - 3 years ago

      @Nugburner420That's just gross. Women don't poop!!!

    • ShimmyDigg

      ShimmyDigg - 3 years ago

      @Nugburner420id say there's a difference between big breasts and fat breasts.

  • MFly

    MFly - 3 years ago

    at 30 seconds my car woulda smelled like poop

  • Dubado

    Dubado - 3 years ago

    I repair rairoad cars for a living. Don't look like I'm going to get any business out of that one....

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    Giovanni17

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    Giovanni17

    Giovanni17 - 3 years ago

     love the sound of a turbo:)

    • technoviking9

      technoviking9 - 3 years ago

      @Giovanni17not a turbo.. its feedback from the cars electrical system to the dash cam..

    • Dinkoman

      Dinkoman - 3 years ago

      @Giovanni17You can hear the turbo dumbass.

    • Djshady82

      Djshady82 - 3 years ago

      @Giovanni17Not a Turbo.... might be supercharged, but def not a turbo.

    • Mikhail1980

      Mikhail1980 - 3 years ago

      @Giovanni17apparently you have never driven very fast in reverse, try it, most cars sound like they have a turbo, it's just how the gears are cut.

    • Stick_Siwash

      Stick_Siwash - 3 years ago

      @Giovanni17Yeah, cant use a turbo when reversing, engine would turn the wrong way. Cop car would move back in time. Could have prevented the accident though...

  • dirtylilmonkey

    dirtylilmonkey - 3 years ago

    I farted. had no idea there was a flame nearby.

  • ozfest_43

    ozfest_43 - 3 years ago

     Damn!

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    ThatWelshman

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    ThatWelshman

    ThatWelshman - 3 years ago

     no thanks ... I'll take a good old structure fire over that ANY day

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    Prolex7

    Prolex7 - 3 years ago

     Awesome reverse driving.

  • tomass04

    tomass04 - 3 years ago

    Thank god this cop made the great decision to go backwards to get away from this.

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    screwbreakdotcom

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    screwbreakdotcom - 3 years ago

     I like how he doesn't turn his siren on until AFTER he flies backwards on a dark street for about half a mile. And I think this derailment involved PROPANE tankers. Not propylene. (Unless they were tankers that looked like milk jugs, maybe.)

    • Vardus

      Vardus - 3 years ago

      @screwbreakdotcomhe had his lights on, and he was running for his life, im sure in the midst of "sh*t hitting the fan" you can excuse sum1 for not hitting the sirens. Also, it WAS liquid Propylene, propane behaves much different in an "explosion".

    • tAgS87

      tAgS87 - 3 years ago

      @screwbreakdotcomi'm pretty sure: you'd shit your pants

    • tomass04

      tomass04 - 3 years ago

      @screwbreakdotcomRunning for his life my ass the fire wasen't even close to him.

    • fryloque

      fryloque - 3 years ago

      @screwbreakdotcomYea dude, you're thinkin polypropylene. Propylene is a big boomer just like propane, probably bigger. Double bond, higher energy and shit.

    • fryloque

      fryloque - 3 years ago

      @screwbreakdotcomBut they don't actually construct the tankers out of the material anyway. The tankers are most always stainless steel of some variety.

  • Kippawah

    Kippawah - 3 years ago

    That's a biiiig explosion.

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    Goulash02

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    Goulash02

    Goulash02 - 3 years ago

     He's a police he has to back up pretty far and secure the area for civilians...and he doesn't know what was on that train.

    • ftolmsteen

      ftolmsteen - 3 years ago

      @Goulash02wetbacks.

    • Steevee

      Steevee - 3 years ago

      @Goulash02One can only hope they were wetbacks and I'm sure they dieded.

    • platniumfairy

      platniumfairy - 3 years ago

      @Goulash02How about getting on his public address system and telling the people living near the tracks to get the hell away before or while backing up for a half mile to secure the unthreatened area for the civilians? It seems like that would have been a good idea!

  • chicken_n_ribs

    chicken_n_ribs - 3 years ago

     Jeez where's he backing up to, Belgium?

  • pedromarron86

    pedromarron86 - 3 years ago

     hahahha I think he went far enough

  • GIgod

    GIgod - 3 years ago

    freakin big ass plosion

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    dooberdawg

    dooberdawg - 3 years ago

    00:37 ..." gitcher ass outta mah way, ah gotta git my ass up outta here..."

  • BarrackObama

    BarrackObama - 3 years ago

    Conspiracy!

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