Putra Heights gas pipeline fire victims recount quake-like tremors

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Two victims who escaped from their houses with their families in the Putra Harmoni neighbourhood in the massive Tuesday (April 1) morning fire likened explosions during the incident to tremors brought about by an earthquake.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/hr57m92c  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Oh my God.

00:06Go, go, go. Just go.

00:07Go back.

00:08I don't know if you can see it, but the ceiling is starting to fall down, so we have to go

00:31down.

00:32The plastic is all melted, so I don't know if it will come out or not.

00:39I mean, after that I decided to apply it.

00:43I think the front is probably going to fall, so I'm going to wire the back end.

00:48Just inside the house and then don't know what to do.

00:50Just stay inside there like waiting, calling the firefighter.

00:54Then run inside the house, and then also don't know if we try to move the car away.

01:00Just wait, but don't know what to do.

01:03So then the firefighter came and asked us to go outside.

01:09The whole house is shaking.

01:12Yeah, the ceiling also cracked, also broke down.

01:15Then the window cracked also.

01:18Even the plants outside also I think all died already.

01:22Very hot.

01:23Yes, just like from the start, even when the window hasn't cracked yet, you can already

01:27feel the heat behind the window.

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