VIDEO: The state's final report about the Farmington explosion, obtained by the CBS 13 I-Team, reveals what firefighters experienced in moments just before and after the blast. They’ve never spoken about it publicly, but their interviews with investigators detail the terrifying ordeal and their brave actions that day.
The explosion happened while firefighters investigated the report of a possible gas leak, but according to transcripts of interviews with responding firefighters, they didn't smell gas when they arrived.
Firefighter Joe Hastings told investigators:
"We couldn’t smell any propane, we smelled nothing. I was getting no reads whatsoever."
Until they got to the basement, when Hastings said:
"When I got to the basement, finally on the ground level the alarm went into full alarm at 100 PPM which our max is at."
Hastings said they were going to cut the main “in hopes to not have any electricity spark.”