The explosion was heard and felt just before 3:40 Sunday afternoon in the 2400
block of Illinois.
A Michigan State Police fire investigator told ABC12 the explosion happened
after someone broke into the home and cut a gas supply line while stealing
copper. The gas was then ignited by some sort of electrical charge, possibly an
appliance cycling on or off.
The homeowner, who did not want to be interviewed, was not at the house when it
exploded. She told ABC12 she actually moved three or four months ago after
being broken a few times.
Neighbors told us they saw some teenagers in the back yard earlier Sunday and
reported seeing the back door left open, but investigators have not yet
figured out if they are connected to the case.
When firefighters arrived, they found walls knocked down and a small fire that
was quickly put out.
Jody Taylor lives next door and thought what she heard Sunday afternoon was
thunder.
"You know how it goes 'boom?' I thought that's what was going on, and I looked
out the window and saw what was going on," Jody said.
Neighbor Corie Foor heard and felt the explosion from her basement.
"Sounded like it was in our house and we ran upstairs and saw that the house
just blew," Foor said. "Then when we walked around here, it just kept going and
it blew out the two sides."
Neighbor Scott Taylor is thankful the flying debris only damaged his outside
wall, and not his family inside. "Luckily nothing else happened," he said.
"What you can't see from the back is the entire rear wall and one of the side
walls is completely collapsed and the roof structure is sagging and collapsing
in the back, so this is a house that's going to need to be removed immediately,"
said Flint Fire Department Battalion Chief Andy Graves.
The homeowner did have insurance.
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