Posted on 09/20/2022 10:43:40 AM PDT by Red Badger
At least eight people were hospitalized Tuesday as a residential building in Chicago collapsed after a massive explosion.
Law enforcement and first responders were sent to the four-story apartment building in the city’s South Austin neighborhood shortly before 9:30am on Tuesday morning after an explosion caused the roof to collapse, ABC News reported. Three of those involved in the “mass casualty” event are in serious condition. One of the injured was in a building on the opposite side of the street when the explosion occurred, WGN9 noted.
Ten ambulances arrived at the scene, transporting six men and two women to hospitals, ABC News continued. The Chicago Fire Department shared footage online showing debris from the blast spread across the corner block.
“I was asleep, and all of a sudden there was a loud booming,” one resident told WGN9. “I woke up to my windows gone, my front door blown open. I just saw smoke, and I ran out of the house. I was asleep. I’m shook up right now.” Other residents who left the building shortly before the explosion said they smelled something in the hallway right before the explosion happened, but People’s Gas has refuted these statements, WGN9 continued.
“The cause of the incident is unknown, but there is no reason at this point to believe the cause is related to gas or any of our equipment,” a spokesperson for Peoples Gas said, according to ABC News. The local fire department also reportedly told the company that there was no odor of gas, nor have any equipment issues been identified, WGN9 reported.
The investigation is ongoing, with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and Explosives, Chicago Bomb Squad joining Chicago fire, ABC News noted.
I don’t know that neighborhood, was it a meth lab?
Meth lab???
Meth?
It was the Russians!
Almost had another Thailand.
“People’s Gas has refuted these statements”
WTH? Peoples Gas? Well I guess we should believe what the party tells us.
Weekend shooting not enough? Or was it a ‘MVE’ attack?
Reno 911 version live on stage at Bonnaroo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoXExo3qVNw
Must be one of those hard working WFH folks.
Might be a Day Sleeper, works nights..........................otoh, NAH...................
Austin is not a good neighborhood. Use to be one of the worst in the country.
Putin!
Is that the bus that makes the rounds after the weekend shootings?
That’s what I do nowadays
Way to go, Beetlejuice, way to go.
Law enforcement and first responders were sent to the four-story apartment building in the city’s South Austin neighborhood shortly before 9:30am on Tuesday morning
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“I was asleep, and all of a sudden there was a loud booming,” one resident told WGN9. “I woke up to my windows gone, my front door blown open. I just saw smoke, and I ran out of the house. I was asleep. I’m shook up right now.”
I was asleep - 9:30 AM on a work day.
Either a shift worker or a shiftless non-worker.
Any bets?
“Safe efficient natural gas”
-SB
Must have been tossing the bags of Fulminated Mercury up there in Chi town.
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