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| The quiet before the firey storm... | ...which none of us had expected, and it lit the sky, and we felt the heat even a hundred yards away. | The fire took hold of the wooden platform and began to consume it. |
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| The fire continued to work against the wood, but it was slow going, it seemed. | The platform finally toppled over at 1:05am, 17 minutes after the explosion at 12:48am. | The derrick lay in flames, with the figures continuing to praise the oil platform (off to the left). |
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