I spent a lot of years handling shipments by truck, ship and airplane... I hated to handle hazmats... I spent 5 years with a company that specialized in hazmat shipments, flammable gases, radioactive, and oilfield explosives... I handled two shipments once that was 50,000 lbs each of oil field explosives...
The sight of those tanks exploding and shooting flames high in the air reminded me of a trip I made with my former brother-in-law... he drove a plumbing delivery truck and was making deliveries to a little Oklahoma town... as we approached, we saw smoke from a fire... we drove into the town and saw a tanker truck on fire in a service station... BIL wanted to take a closer look... he parked about a block away and we started walking closer to the station... about have way there the tank exploded and a huge fireball shot into the air... except for being black smoke it looked like an atomic mushroom cloud.... BIL yelled run and started back towards his truck -- I had already passed the truck and was still making tracks when he realized he had to go back for the truck.... bet that was the fastest 1/4 mile I ever did....