Propane tank explodes in McCaysville

Well, we've been dealing with actually this propane fire that has been taking place. You can see the firefighters, what they're doing right now is they're pouring some water on this church. The propane tank was in the back of that church, and it caught on fire about an hour or so ago, and they were going to let it burn itself out, but then the thing exploded. In fact, it's exploded a total of four different times. Now, the first time it actually exploded was when we were live. We'll show you what it was like when that took place. That was the first of four of these different explosions. that we saw. Basically what these firefighters are doing right now is pouring water on the church to make sure that the church, because again the propane tank was in the back of the church, doesn't catch on fire. As far as the flooding is concerned, which of course is the whole reason that we initially came out here, the good news is the water has really receded. We are talking down a good, I'm estimating good 8 to 10 feet as far as the water is concerned. But they did have to conduct 20 But 30 to 40 water rescues, and they were still trying to make sure that there weren't any more that they were going to have to do. They actually sent up a drone to try to find some folks. They said they thought maybe some people might even be on the roofs. This water, when it came through and rose this morning, was fast, and it came up really high. And as a result, they said that the water actually did reach the roof levels of some of these houses. And we talked with the fire chief. Excuse me, the police chief, about how this isn't the first time that they've had to deal with something like this. Back in August, we had another flash flood in this area. It was not to this extent, but we just recently opened a lot of our government buildings and our businesses from that flood in August, and they've only been open for about a week now, and now we get hit with this. Yeah, and they are really underwater, at least they were underwater, and they're going to be taking quite a bit of damage. You can see someone being loaded, as we speak, onto an ambulance. We had earlier saw another person who was loaded onto an ambulance. We didn't have any idea as to possibly the injuries that they might be having. We're not sure, obviously, the details with this particular person. Who is being put on an ambulance. Just a reminder, we are right here on the state line with Tennessee, extreme north Georgia. In fact, the other side of the river that has flooded is a different town, but it is in Tennessee. And the water reached high levels here at the Toccoa River. That was our Mark Teichner reporting. I mean, the images up there in Fannin County and McCaysville, just absolutely heartbreaking. We'll have reporters covering the story throughout the day.