Dallas Fire Rescue Crews Battle Fire After Early Morning House Explosion
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - A chaotic scene in Dallas overnight after a house in the Little Forest Hills neighborhood catches fire and explodes.
Officials with Dallas Fire Rescue say a neighbor who called 911 around 1:00 a.m. after hearing a "loud bang" and looking outside to see the house across the street, in the 8700 block of San Leandro Drive, on fire.
Officials say when firefighters arrived they could see heavy fire coming from the house and flames threatening a neighboring home. There was one person, a woman in her 70's, inside the neighboring home; but she was not injured and her home only suffered minor damage.
It took about an hour for crews to extinguish the fire. Between the flames and a partial roof collapse the house suffered significant damage.
The structural instability of the home initially made it impossible for fire crews to get inside. Fire investigators later learned that there were four people, two adults and two children, living at the house but that they all were out of town and safe when the fire occurred.
Crews at the scene told CBS 11 News that attempts to make entry wouldn't happen until after sunrise because there was the possibility the walls of the house could collapse.
