At least two people were killed and several others injured after a pair of explosions and a fire tore through a nursing home in Bristol Township, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia, on Tuesday (Dec 23).
00:00At least two people were killed and several others injured after a pair of explosions and a fire tore through a nursing home in Bristol Township, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia, on Tuesday.
00:16Emergency crews rushed to the scene shortly after 2 p.m. local time, where firefighters found major structural damage, with part of the building's first floor collapsing into the basement.
00:26Officials believe a gas leak triggered the explosions and fire at the Silver Lake nursing home, causing a partial collapse of the structure.
00:34And then the explosion came on. There was a loud explosion.
00:41This is a very, very tragic moment for this community.
00:46An explosion occurred just a few hours ago.
00:50There are investigations underway as to what caused that explosion.
00:55The PUC is here on the ground working with PECO.
00:58We believe preliminarily that it was a gas leak that led to that.
01:03The explosion was really quite catastrophic.
01:07When we arrived, there was a major structural collapse with parts of the first floor into the basement with persons trapped.
01:16Fire department personnel immediately went into a rescue mode.
01:19They pulled many residents out of the building via windows, doors, stuck in stairwells, stuck in elevator shafts.
01:29When we entered the collapsed zone, we did rescue two people from the actual collapsed structure in the basement.
01:38We did have a heavy odor of gas at that time.
01:40We got everyone out that we could find, that we could see, and we exited the building.
01:49Within approximately 15 to 30 seconds of us exiting the building, knowing there was a heavy odor of natural gas around us,
01:56there was another explosion and fire.
01:58Five people were initially believed to be missing, prompting an intensive search and rescue operation that continued for hours
02:06as heavy equipment was brought in to clear rubble.
02:09The nursing home is certified for up to 174 beds, with more than 50 patients typically inside at any given time.
02:17Authorities later confirmed all patients had been accounted for.
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