‘He’s An Extremely Lucky Individual’: Home Explosion In Edgewood Leaves Man Seriously Injured

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EDGEWOOD, Md. (WJZ) — An detonation throws a antheral from his location and 3 homes connected the thoroughfare spell up successful flames. It happened on Thornberry Drive Sunday evening. The homeowner was sent to Johns Hopkins Bayview for attraction of his pain injuries.

Fred Farlow lives a thoroughfare distant from the detonation tract and said the blast helium heard was the loudest dependable helium has ever experienced. “The roar similar deafened your ears successful the house, the full location shook,” helium said.

Farlow said cereal boxes got knocked disconnected his antagonistic and erstwhile we walked into the room to enactment them back, helium looked retired the model astatine a monolithic fire. “I could spot done my room model this large 40-foot occurrence shooting up successful the aerial oregon down the trees.”

He said the show was scary but the sounds were terrifying. “I ran extracurricular and successful my backyard, you could really perceive each the debris falling, radical screaming ‘get retired the house, get retired of the house, get retired of the location now!’”

Oliver Alkire from the Office of The State Fire Marshal said, “we cognize determination are reports retired connected societal media that this man whitethorn person been doing immoderate enactment connected his stove but they person not confirmed what caused the blast.” BGE was successful the country passim the nighttime and overmuch of Monday, they said their instrumentality was not to blame.

The homeowner is successful captious but unchangeable condition. “He has beauteous superior burns from some his precocious body, some his arms, his caput and such. He’s an highly fortunate individual,” said Alkire.

Farlow said debris covered the road. People could not spot done the heavy fume and they walked astir with their hands implicit their mouths. He said children were crying and galore were acrophobic the 2 dogs owned by the injured antheral died successful the fire. The 2 dogs were recovered connected Monday and nary different injuries person been reported.

As the fume clears, what is near is humbling. “Then erstwhile the fog stopped, astir 2 hours later, you could spot it from the country down there. All you could spot was conscionable a skeleton of the house, that was it,” said Farlow.

A antheral successful the location adjacent door, Henry Schwartzman, told WJZ helium was knocked from his couch. “Over determination I’m sitting, and the roar knocked maine disconnected the sofa,” helium said. He ran done the location to get his wife. “I spot smoke, flames and occurrence conscionable shooting up truthful we got retired close away.”

To spot his neighbor’s location now, Schwartzman said, “that 1 looks conscionable similar this, 3 bedrooms, garage, surviving room, inferior room, kitchen, bath.”

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Updates connected the origin volition beryllium released by the State Fire Marshal whenever they person completed their investigation.