I saw pictures of a large pile of splinters with a burning crater in the middle of it on TV. I was very much surprised to hear that it had been a million dollar house in the recent past. Like a couple of hours before then. Seems a man inside called 911 and guided the rescue effort to his location in the pile. He was airlifted to the local trauma center with life threatening injuries. At least one other person in the the house didn’t survive. No word on exactly what happened to flatten that home and do significant damage to the one next door yet.
I don’t live too far from where this happened. It’s maybe a twenty minute drive down Lancaster Hwy from here. For some reason I think we have another Doper closer to it than me. Anything to report or was that you under there? I know some of us have unusual hobbies…
I’m gonna guess it was a natural gas leak. A few years ago there was one or two of them around here and I feel like they looked just like that. No house left while the other houses were left in tact.
And, regarding the smell, I seem to always be able to smell a pilot light that’s out, but I’ve seen many, many times where I’ll tell people that I smell gas and found a pilot light out or a pot of water that over boiled and no one noticed the flame went out, but they couldn’t smell anything. I think in some cases you get olfactory fatigue before you even notice it.
Yep. I bet my mom it was gas or a home made bomb gone wrong. She believes they had a meth lab in the basement. There are clues in the pictures and video. It wasn’t burning all over. Just the hole in the middle caught fire and it took a little time after the explosion to do that. In the closer pictures you can see that some of the wood was blown to the consistency of sawdust. It seems to have flattened out pretty evenly all around.
Verdict seems to be gas leak. No international plot to overthrow the government. No UFO crashed through the roof. This state is so boring. 