The latest version of plans include a concrete exit onto Bellview Road as the commission requested. Gatling said plans for the expansion of Bellview into a four-lane street were the reason project engineers previously called for asphalt. It would be an easier and less expensive way to provide a drive knowing it would eventually have to be removed and replaced, Gatling said.

For Landon Woodard, it was up close and personal.

“It took out a portion of the wall, the entire roof, it picked me up and threw me against the fire truck,” says Woodard.

The blast threw him face first into engine 632, and he left his mark.

Some gauges on the outside of the truck were not damaged or melted by the heat of the flames because Landon was covering them.

He literally had to pull himself off of the truck.

Woodard recovered but old 632 never really did. The fire left it with melted lights, finicky gauges and a damaged electrical system used to raise the ladder.