The explosion occurred on Wednesday, September 20, about 15:00, in the Western part of Los Angeles, destroying part of the house and swept the debris in the neighboring areas. Also damaged several nearby houses.
At the moment of explosion in a house in West hills, in the neighborhood of 7500 on Sale Avenue, were two people, according to the report of the fire Department of Los Angeles. Fortunately, no one was hurt.
Back of a house in western Los Angeles exploded, blowing debris across multiple backyards and the surrounding area. https://t.co/49B1JE7gcw pic.twitter.com/6npSseIBjM
— ABC News (@ABC) September 21, 2017
At the moment, the official version of the incident yet but, according to the police channel ABC Los Angeles, they are of the opinion that, on USERVA could be a leak of natural gas.
«We heard this loud Bang,» says neighbor Jordan K Deala-Lenik. «At first we thought it was a big earthquake, and we really got scared. My mother and I, we ran out of the house and could not understand what was happening. The whole house shook, but most of the tremors we felt and realized that it was not an earthquake.»
The altitude of the helicopter, you notice scattered around the area furniture, bricks and wooden beams.
In addition to the house where the explosion occurred, suffered 6 adjacent buildings. One woman in the house the shock wave blew out all the Windows. A pickup truck, I stood in the driveway, also took off all the glass.
The explosion was so powerful that it broke the brick wall between the houses, destroying the whole section.
Authorities said that they will continue to investigate the cause of the accident.
