Several people were injured, and two dozen houses were damaged after a home explosion in Northwest Austin over the weekend.
Just before 11:30 a.m. Sunday, multiple people called 911 to report the incident involving a two-story home, which had been “completely leveled by the explosion,” according to the Austin Fire Department. The collapsed home was in the 10400 block of Double Spur Loop.
Upon arriving at the scene, first responders also noted a vehicle that had been caught on fire and a “neighboring home with significant structural collapse.” Affected streets included Spicewood Mesa, Pantera Ridge and Muley Drive.
The fire department reported the following adult injuries:
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Two from the collapsed home; one critical and the other serious but stable
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One critical from the neighboring home
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One with minor injuries, who refused to be taken to a hospital
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Two firefighters with minor injuries
The explosion also downed power lines, leaving the area without electricity, according to the fire department. Travis County electric utility company Pedernales Electric Cooperative was at the scene Sunday addressing the outage.
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The Travis County Fire Marshal is leading an investigation into the cause of the explosion, Austin Fire Department Division Chief Wayne Parrish confirmed at a news conference.
“At this point we don’t believe that there will be any criminal investigation,” Parris told reporters.
Parrish said the blast was heard as far as Georgetown, located around 25 miles north of Austin.
“As far as we know, we have accounted for everybody that was in all of the residences. We are on a temporary stand down waiting for excavators to come to help us do more large debris removal,” he added.
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— USA TODAY contributed to this report.
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