Watch: Firefighters Caught in Backdraft While Battling House Blaze

— -- A video has captured the terrifying moment when two firefighters were caught in a backdraft as they attempted to put out a house fire in Texarkana, Arkansas.

"I've never seen a little explosion like that have a lot of pressure [but] not a whole lot of fire," battalion chief Rick Pavick told CBS affiliate KSLA-TV. "In 25 years, it's the first time I've seen that."

Tasha Pool and her 1-year-old child were reportedly asleep in the home Wednesday around 10 p.m., when witnesses saw the fire and called 911. Neighbors were able to awaken Pool and she and her child escaped the home unharmed. They were treated for smoke inhalation as firefighters arrived on the scene.

Firefighter Brian Henry was one of two firefighters in the home when the backdraft occurred. Backdrafts form when oxygen suddenly reignites smoldering debris in a fire that appears to be out.

Henry told KSLA-TV that he and another firefighter were in the living room when the ceiling fell.

"We were in the front room, the living room, making our way to the rear of the house when we heard, not a loud boom, but a boom," Henry said.

Neither firefighter was harmed. Henry said initially the two thought that the ceiling had caved in but when they finally got outside, they learned that an explosion had occurred in the attic.

"The attic door was laying in the yard and there was insulation blown all the way into the street," Henry said.

Fire officials said that the fire was being considered suspicious because the house was not connected to a gas or electric line.