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KENOSHA, WI —
A blast felt two miles away rocked a quiet section of Kenosha, Wisconsin last night, leveling a vacant house and damaging at least nine others, fire officials said.
Only minor injuries were reported from search and cleanup efforts.
"Everything flew off my walls," said Amanda Quiroz, who lives across the street from the blast site. "The walls kind of caved in and started cracking. I thought someone hit the house with a car."
Shattered glass flew over her children as they slept in their beds. It could have killed my whole family," she said.
The explosion happened around 11:10 on the 2100 block of 55th Street, according to Kenosha Fire Chief John Thompson. He said destroyed was a 2-story vacant home the city was rehabbing.
"It caused serious structural damage to homes across the street and shattered windows to homes in a three block radius of where the blast occurred," Thompson said.
He added, "We had at least four businesses affected and reports of hundreds windows broken or shattered,"
One of those who felt the blast and was evacuated by the fire department was Eulla Miame, home with her children at the time.
"I was sitting on my computer taking a test for a job when all the sudden there was a big boom. It made me fly out of my chair," she said. "I went and got my children and ran out of the house."
Many of the residents in the neighborhood are seeking shelter, Johnson said.
Gary Lundskow aided in boarding up many of the broken windows. One of the homes he worked on had broken glass on every side.
"There's a couple houses across the alley that blew up. It took out the windows of the houses along here. It broke the windows of homes behind the homes that took the blast," he said.
"At least nine properties were damaged, either structurally or by broken glass," he said. The home that was leveled was part of a neighborhood rehab program and was owned by the city, Johnson added.
Trucks from the city's public works and emergency departments were already readying for an overnight accumulation of snow.
"We were lucky," Johnson said, "that our guys could go right to the scene and help get through the debris. The streets should be reasonably clear by the morning."
He said it was too early to say the blast was caused by leaking natural gas, but added such explosions cause a number of small spot fires which fire crews witnessed upon arrival to the scene.
It was too early to estimate a monetary amount on the damage caused by the blast, officials said.
Natural gas and electricity was cut off to the area but it has since been restored.
Investigators will continue to look into the cause of the blast.
KENOSHA, WI —
A blast felt two miles away rocked a quiet section of Kenosha, Wisconsin last night, leveling a vacant house and damaging at least nine others, fire officials said.
Only minor injuries were reported from search and cleanup efforts.
"Everything flew off my walls," said Amanda Quiroz, who lives across the street from the blast site. "The walls kind of caved in and started cracking. I thought someone hit the house with a car."
Shattered glass flew over her children as they slept in their beds. It could have killed my whole family," she said.
The explosion happened around 11:10 on the 2100 block of 55th Street, according to Kenosha Fire Chief John Thompson. He said destroyed was a 2-story vacant home the city was rehabbing.
"It caused serious structural damage to homes across the street and shattered windows to homes in a three block radius of where the blast occurred," Thompson said.
He added, "We had at least four businesses affected and reports of hundreds windows broken or shattered,"
One of those who felt the blast and was evacuated by the fire department was Eulla Miame, home with her children at the time.
"I was sitting on my computer taking a test for a job when all the sudden there was a big boom. It made me fly out of my chair," she said. "I went and got my children and ran out of the house."
Many of the residents in the neighborhood are seeking shelter, Johnson said.
Gary Lundskow aided in boarding up many of the broken windows. One of the homes he worked on had broken glass on every side.
"There's a couple houses across the alley that blew up. It took out the windows of the houses along here. It broke the windows of homes behind the homes that took the blast," he said.
"At least nine properties were damaged, either structurally or by broken glass," he said. The home that was leveled was part of a neighborhood rehab program and was owned by the city, Johnson added.
Trucks from the city's public works and emergency departments were already readying for an overnight accumulation of snow.
"We were lucky," Johnson said, "that our guys could go right to the scene and help get through the debris. The streets should be reasonably clear by the morning."
He said it was too early to say the blast was caused by leaking natural gas, but added such explosions cause a number of small spot fires which fire crews witnessed upon arrival to the scene.
It was too early to estimate a monetary amount on the damage caused by the blast, officials said.
Natural gas and electricity was cut off to the area but it has since been restored.
Investigators will continue to look into the cause of the blast.
