UPDATED – Fireground audio: Four firefighters hurt when dwelling explodes. Same neighborhood where six homes burned two nights ago.
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Audio from firefighterdispatch of this evening’s explosion in the 17100 block of Lamont in Detroit that injured four firefighters. This is the same neighborhood where six homes burned at the same time in a three block area Tuesday night. Two of those homes that burned were on Lamont Street (see video and read details from Tuesday). The video below is from BoxAlarmDetroit.
Firefighters were responding to a small house fire on Lamont at the time of the incident. Two of the firefighters went into the home to check if it was occupied when the explosion happened, according to fire officials.
Officials say the two other firefighters that were injured were standing outside of the home.
Sources tell 7 Action News the four firefighters received second degree burns and at least one sustained cuts from exploding debris.
Ann Zaniewski, Detroit Free Press:
The firefighters were taken to Detroit Receiving Hospital with minor burns and cuts and are expected to be OK, Executive Fire Commissioner Donald Austin said.
He said firefighters were extinguishing a fire at the house when the explosion occurred around 9 p.m. “(It) appears to be a natural gas leak,” Austin said, stressing that the cause remains under investigation.
Austin said he believes the house was vacant.
Photo by Dennis Walus, Detroit Fireground Images.
Firefighters were at the home to battle a blaze when the house exploded and the walls collapsed, trapping them inside.
The firefighters were rushed to a hospital and are expected to be OK.
WJBK-TV/MyFoxDetroit image.
“The fire department, they got here… real quick and three of them went inside. There was one on the outside. Then the house just exploded,” said Brian Dunn. “House just collapsed on the three firemen and the other fireman got knocked in the street, and then the rest of the firemen (rushed) in there and went to help the other guys and then they took them away in an ambulance.”
A worker was in the house at the time of the initial fire. He got out safely.
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