Ohio House Explosion Injures 6, 1 Missing Officials Say

A house exploded in western Ohio on
Saturday, sending six people, including three young children, to
hospitals with burns and leaving one missing, officials said.



Work was being done on the house's water
line when the gas line was hit and ruptured, causing the explosion,
Fairborn Fire Marshal Carl Day said. It is unclear whether anyone died
in the explosion.The house was demolished, throwing debris
and the victims -- including an infant -- into the yard. Some of the
victims were airlifted to hospitals.



Crews were searching the rubble for the unaccounted person, believed to be an older man, Day said.Neighbor Cybil Poole told the Dayton Daily
News that the explosion, which occurred 100 meters from her house, felt
like a car hitting it. She said she saw the infant was burned, bloodied
and covered in glass.

"It was horrible. It was like a movie scene.
You see this huge fireball and you see people come out of it on fire,"
she said. "If everybody made it out of there alive, it's truly a
blessing. Obviously their lives will be changed forever."


Another neighbor, Paula Corelli, told the
newspaper that she was almost hit by a flying piece of wood from the
explosion. When she saw two adults running down the sidewalk carrying
three bloodied children, she offered to take them while the adults
returned to the scene.


"Medics told me to keep them awake because
they had head injuries, so we sang to them, me and another woman," she
said. "And we didn't let them look back. It was still on fire and there
was a lot of blood."


Day said four juveniles were among the
injured: three children, ages 1, 3 and 5, as well as a teenager. Their
identities were not released, but Day said the juveniles were not
believed to be the children of the injured adults.


The children were taken to Dayton Children's
Medical Center, where the infant was listed in critical condition.
Another child was still being examined, while two were expected to be
treated and released, spokesman Terry Fink said.


Details about the adult victims, including their ages and the extent of their injuries, weren't immediately available.


The gas has been turned off to the residence
after the fire was put out, Day said. He some of the neighbors who had
been evacuated were allowed to return.


"Our focus right now is making the scene
safe and tending to the victims," Chas Kelley, a spokeswoman for Vectren
Corp., told The Associated Press from an airplane getting ready to take
off for Fairborn.


Kelley said it hasn't been confirmed that
there was a gas leak and the company would likely conduct its own
investigation into the cause of the explosion.
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thats fucking nuts, and scary. I hope they are okay and that the infant isn't burned that badly. I actually got thrown out of a house by an explosion when I was maybe 12 or 13. The pilot light when out on the stove and this dude tried to relight it and it exploded, sending me flying through a sliding glass door and leaving me with no eyebrows for a few months hahaha.