posted on August 18, 2008

Globe and Mail: Everything's on fire, run for your cameras!

By: SARAH BOESVELD
Published: August 16, 2008
Source: Globe and Mail

At 3:40 a.m. last Sunday, Carmine Riossi Jr. was asleep in his North York home when a tremendous rumble blew open the attic door from the ceiling in his room. He ran downstairs and felt another rumble ripple through his body.

"That's when I was in my mood already, 'I have to take some video of what's going on,' " the 19-year-old said from his home on Sunray Crescent, two blocks away from the Sunrise Propane plant at Keele Street and Wilson Avenue.

With no time to fish around for his camcorder, Mr. Riossi grabbed his Sony Ericsson cellphone and ran out with his father, Carmine Riossi Sr.

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