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Yesterday I was hard at work on some audio files for the San Angelo Review when the propane truck exploded about 12:30 p.m. I had actually planned to be driving into San Angelo on 208 about that time from my studio outside Robert Lee. Things might have been different had I been keeping a strict schedule.
Anyway, I ended up making my trip around 2 p.m. I never made it to San Angelo.
The truck's crash site was about ten miles south of my property and 208 was closed both ways at the time. I thought it was a pasture fire until two troopers waved me down and told me what had happened.
I drove a couple of hundred yards further amidst the smoke from smoldering mesquites and reached the site. I took off my landowner's hat and put on my journalist's hat and took a few pictures and talked to DPS about what had happened. Here's a little video from that effort.
For more hard news about this story, check out www.gosangelo.com. Photographer Cynthia Esparza made some stunning photographs of the actual explosion. And Maribel Salazar reports the story.
(This was originally posted to the San Angelo Review December 7, 2007)
