Tag Archives: House Explosion

A good samaritan rescued the occupant and his caretaker from this home after an explosion rocked the neighborhood. In all, 5 people were injured including one firefighter. The house was leveled and went up in flames before firefighters could get there.

The home at 519 Washington St. was leveled by a gas explosion around 2:30 p.m. The blast was heard little over seven miles away and also caught one other house on fire, leaving a large crater in the roof. It was not known if those occupants were home when the fire started.

Here are some videos of fires which occurred on Thanksgiving Day. I will probably add more videos throughout the day Friday as they are uploaded to youtube. Feel free to submit a link or send in your photos/info.

Luckily no one was in the wrong place at the wrong time. CCTV captured footage of a house exploding in Florence, Kentucky. There isn’t any sound, so we still haven’t answered that age old question “If a house blows up ...