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“It is an absolute miracle, if you have seen that scene, that we
are talking currently about no fatalities,” said Chris Barnett,
the supervisor of Oakland County's Orion Township, northwest of
Detroit.
One condo building exploded Tuesday evening at the Keatington
New Town Association, causing significant damage to another
building and what appeared to be minor damage to two or three
other buildings, said township Fire Chief Ryan Allen.
“I was on the computer and there was a shock wave," resident
Scully Hirsack told TV station Fox 2 Detroit. “The screen popped
out at me and everything came off the walls.”
A man and a woman in their 70s were injured. One was in critical
but stable condition Wednesday while the other was listed
between stable and serious, Allen said.
"We have lots of people homeless,” Barnett said, adding that 18
families were displaced.
At a news conference, he praised an unidentified Amazon driver
who apparently helped a man to safety.
“There were many heroes last night,” Barnett said.
A definitive cause of the explosion was not known, though Allen
said a natural gas leak was possible. A witness said she smelled
gas. Consumers Energy turned off gas as first responders worked
the fire.
“Our system was intact and no abnormalities found,” said Chris
Fultz, the utility's vice president of gas operations.
Two people who were unaccounted after the explosion were later
found and were not in the building.
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