“explosion with a small ground fire”.... hate to see what an ‘explosion with a large ground fire’ would have looked like.
That is often when a storage tank gets involved. Tough to put those out after they split open.
Norco, Louisiana, Refinery Fire - June 2001
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBPMVbAJ56c
1 minute video, 270-foot-diameter gasoline storage tank fire, they put it out.