According to the city's local fire union, multiple people, including children, had been trapped and rescued from the rubble as crews were continuing to search for more trapped occupants Monday afternoon.. More than 200 personnel were on scene, including officials with Baltimore County Fire, the city's emergency management office and Baltimore Gas and Electric, the union said.
Linda Foy, a spokeswoman for Baltimore Gas and Electric, told USA TODAY that crews received a call from Baltimore's fire department just before 10 a.m. Monday and were working to turn off gas to other buildings in the immediate area. Blair Adams, a spokeswoman for the fire department, told reporters at the scene that the exact cause of the explosion was still under investigation.
Photos from the area showed the rubble of the collapsed structures next to other row houses as fire officials searched through debris. A fourth home was partly destroyed, and neighbors' homes had shattered windows, too.that the explosion"knocked me across the bed" in his nearby home."I came downstairs and saw all of the front of the houses across the street, they were on the ground. I had a picture window downstairs, the glass is in the chair now," he told the newspaper.
Looks like Chicago after the looting yesterday.. Where are the stories on that?
Horrifying
2020 sucks
Same owner?
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