6 people injured after house explosion destroys 4 homes in Monterey Park

Monterey Park residents are inactive successful disbelief aft a house explosion rocked the northeast Calgary assemblage Saturday night, leaving six radical injured and respective townhomes uninhabitable.

“Boom. Boom,” recounted adjacent nonmigratory Vanshika Taneja connected Sunday successful beforehand of the destroyed homes. “Our location shook and each of the different houses, we each felt it. It felt similar an earthquake.”

Calgary Fire Department nationalist accusation serviceman Carol Henke said the crews responded to reports of an detonation and location occurrence astatine the Las Americas Villas astir 11 p.m. Saturday night.

Upon arrival, crews instantly called a 2nd alarm owed to the magnitude of the fire. Six radical were transported to hospital: 1 successful life-threatening condition, 1 successful superior information and 4 successful unchangeable condition. A feline was besides rescued by firefighters.

Firefighters continued to enactment retired blistery spots Sunday greeting arsenic crews were astatine the country investigating the origin of the explosion.

“This benignant of occurrence is incredibly rare,” Henke said erstwhile asked however communal these types of fires are. “We don’t spot this precise often astatine each and it doesn’t look similar it had thing to bash with earthy state astatine this point.”

Residents were inactive shaken up connected Sunday arsenic they surveyed the harm and recounted what they saw and heard.

Lyla Boyden told Global News her hubby heard the explosion.

“It’s awful. It was terrifying past nighttime seeing the chaos … This is devastating for each the families involved. That was upsetting actually, seeing radical enactment connected stretchers, seeing radical bleeding. There was solid that was astir apt 100 feet distant from the units.”

Gemmaricka Velasco lives crossed the street. She said the detonation was terrifying for her and her daughter.

“We are truly truthful scared, truthful scared.”

Babar Kahn, who lives conscionable of a mates houses away, said the detonation woke him up – his ain location shook.

“We came retired and we saw large flames. The mediate location was successful large flames and past wrong minutes the different 2 houses caught fire.”

The origin remains nether investigation.

– with files from Global News’ Craig Momney