Bay Area, Explosion
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At least six people were transported to the hospital Thursday morning after a damaged gas line caused a massive building explosion and large fire in Hayward, officials say. Dramatic footage captured by a doorbell camera shows the moments of the explosion.
An explosion tore through a residential block in California’s Bay Area, destroying several homes and sending multiple people to the hospital after a construction crew reported striking an underground gas line.
All six people injured in a gas line explosion and fire that leveled at least one home near Hayward on Thursday are expected to survive.
A gas explosion set off a major fire in a San Francisco Bay Area neighborhood on Thursday after obliterating at least one home, blowing out windows and shaking nearby houses.
A fire disaster triggered by sudden gas explosion on Sunday consumed a building of three-bed room flats in Asa Local Government Area of Kwara state. The
The leak in Hayward, Calif., started after a construction crew struck a Pacific Gas and Electric underground gas line, according to the utility.
"They looked in shock and easily that the explosion took out their ear drum - I assume - because people were trying to talk to them and they were not really hearing it," said Oscar Vazquez, a Hayward resident.
The woman who was critically injured and airlifted to a hospital after a fire and an explosion at a Eustis jewelry store last week has died, according to the woman’s friend.