Well Drilling Completed in an Indonesian Village A 100-meter torch (2 photos + 1 video)
Residents of a small village in Indonesia decided they urgently needed a new well. No sooner said than done: they called a crew with a drilling rig, marked the spot, and began digging. Who knew that instead of life-giving water, they would dig up a passage to an evacuation center? 
Problems began when the drill reached about 90 meters. Instead of clean underground water, the workers effortlessly uncovered a powerful underground gas pocket that had been waiting for its moment for millions of years.
A hellish cocktail of mud, rocks, and natural gas erupted from the resulting well with a deafening roar and monstrous force. Naturally, the slightest spark instantly detonated this entire mixture, turning the ordinary village well into a roaring fountain of fire.
According to eyewitnesses, the flames reached nearly 100 meters high—roughly the height of a 30-story building. A column of fire and smoke was visible for miles from the epicenter, and the roar was so loud it sounded like a space shuttle had landed in the village.
Local residents, who had been peacefully going about their business just five minutes earlier, dropped everything and ran for their lives. The inferno and flying rocks managed to seriously damage at least three nearby residential buildings. In short, it was epic.
As a result, rescue services had to urgently evacuate 52 people from the disaster area. The village is now cordoned off, and fire and gas services have struggled to extinguish this makeshift "Gates of Hell" fire. Thus, the village unexpectedly transitioned from an agricultural sector to an oil and gas one.
