Terrifying moment fireball engulfs boat as oil barrel explodes at Brazilian port leaving five injured
This is the terrifying moment a boat burst into flames after an oil spill, leaving five people injured.
Miraculously nobody died, but the shocking incident in the town of Igarape-Miri, Brazil, left two men needing hospital treatment for their burns.
The dramatic CCTV footage shows a group of men working on the boat, when a barrel that is sitting on the gangway suddenly begins spouting out highly flammable liquid.Immediately the men realise the danger they’re in and one man jumps into the water so he can turn the valve on the barrel.
He does so successfully and the oil stops gushing from its container.
However, even before the oil has fully stopped leaking it combusts and immediately the gangway, vessel and men are engulfed in flames.
One of the workmen at the scene of the tragedy in Igarape-Miri, Brazil foresees the impending disaster, throwing himself into the water so he can turn the valve on the barrel and stop the oil leak
The two workers on board the boat, named Comandante Lauro, escape. One jumps onto the neighbouring vessel and the other leaps ashore
A workman can be seen desperately running inshore, his whole body on fire (left). The second escaping port worker has reached the other end of the neighbouring vessel
The man in the water disappears in a ball of flames, whilst two other men leap from the flaming wreck, one of whom is completely on fire as he runs out of the shot.
Within seconds the boat, named the Comandante Lauro, is no longer visible as the fire grows to the size of a house.
A second video shows the fire raging, with smoke bellowing hundreds of feet into the air, clearly causing damage to other crafts nearby.
Within seconds, the fire has intensified immensely, swallowing the vessel completely and letting off a thick black smoke
From the other side of the water, locals watch on in dismay as the vessel threatens to spread its flames still further
Two men were flown to hospital after the explosion that took place last Friday (8 October).
One man suffered third degree burns, while the other had first and second degree burns.
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