 During the fire, motorists plying the North Luzon Expressway saw the smoke from the fire and even slowed down to see it.The people ran for safety to a nearby vacant lot, just behind a terminal of passenger vans servicing the route of Bocaue, Bulacan to SM City Pampanga in the City of San Fernando, Pampanga, causing a stampede.The explosion reached the street and broke some of the windows of nearby houses and establishments.