House explosion Evansville Indiana An explosion ripped through a home Wednesday in a neighborhood in the southern Indiana city of Evansville, injuring three people, the fire chief said. The explosion occurred at about 13:00.
An explosion ripped through a home Wednesday in a neighborhood in the southern Indiana city of Evansville, injuring three people, the fire chief said.
Fire Chief Mike Connelly said the explosion, which happened at about 13:00 bst on Wednesday, also damaged several surrounding houses.
"We've searched the houses and most of them are empty," Connelly said.
The severity of the injuries was not immediately available.
"Rubble was scattered over a 30-foot radius," Connelly said, including "typical building materials" such as wooden boards, window glass and insulation.
Jacki Baumgart, an Award World Trophies office manager two and a half blocks from the blast site, said she and other employees in their building panicked when they heard the explosion.
"It was very loud," Baumgart said. "There was a big smoke."
"We thought a tree had fallen on the building or a car had crashed there," he said. "Debris came down from the ceiling."
He continued: "Everyone here immediately ran out of the building. We thought the building was going to collapse," he said.
The Evansville explosion brought to mind a massive explosion in 2012 that destroyed or damaged more than 80 homes on the south side of Indianapolis and killed two people.
A man has pleaded guilty to tampering with a natural gas line at his then-girlfriend's home in an attempt to commit insurance fraud, killing two next-door neighbours in the explosion. That man, his half-brother and his girlfriend were sentenced to long prison terms.
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