Jesus Christ, food truck explodes in North Philly
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There is some terrifying security-cam video.
Yesterday evening, a Mexican food truck exploded in Feltonville, in east North Philly. There's video. It's terrifying.
According to CBS3, which got the video from a surveillance camera nearby, the explosion was due to a propane tank in the cart, which was being operated by a mother and her teenage daughter relatively new to the food-truck business:
Eyewitness News spoke with a relative of the mother and daughter Tuesday night.
"It was her dream was to open a truck," Yasmin Landaverry said of Galdamez.
Landaverry said Galdamez made her dream a reality about two months ago when she opened up her own food truck.
Her daughter, Jaylin, was helping out inside her mother's food truck for the summer.
"Olga is in really bad condition, and Jaylin is also in bad condition but she's less," said Landaverry.
The eight other victims have since been treated and released.
The mother and daughter are still in stable condition, but have third-degree burns over most of their bodies. Here's hoping they're OK.
