‘It was intense heat and the smell of burning tires’: Neighbors describe Surry County fire [Video]

PERSON WHO WAS KILLED. RIGHT NOW, TWO FIREFIGHTERS ARE RECOVERING FROM THEIR INJURIES WHILE PUTTING OUT THIS MASSIVE FIRE AT DOBSON TRUCKING IN SURRY COUNTY. WXII 12 KRIS PETERSEN SPOKE TO PEOPLE WHO HEARD EXPLOSIONS AND SAW THE FLAMES OUT THERE. HE JOINS US LIVE ON THE SCENE. CHRIS. CHRISTINE, YOU CAN SEE THE DESTRUCTION THIS FIRE LEFT BEHIND. A SCARY SITUATION FOR NEIGHBORS WHO LIVED JUST A FEW FEET AWAY. WHEN I COME OUT AND LOOKED, THE GARAGE WAS JUST. IT WAS A BIG FLAME. CHRISTY DAUPHIN SAYS SHE WAS IN HER LIVING ROOM THURSDAY NIGHT, AROUND 830, WHEN A NEIGHBOR KNOCKED ON HER DOOR TO TELL HER THE BUILDING NEXT DOOR WAS ON FIRE. MAINLY I WAS CONCERNED ABOUT MY NEIGHBOR. I SEEN THE LIGHT POLE CATCH ON FIRE AND THE LINES WERE BURNING IN TWO AND SPARKS WERE FLYING AND IT WAS REALLY CLOSE TO HIM. SO …