#home explosion

Crackpot barricades himself in a house and then fires 30-40 flares into the upscale neighborhood. Hours later the police arrive with a warrant and the man starts shooting at them with a gun. Moments later the large house spectacularly explodes. All four walls and roof disintegrate and are replaced with a massive fireball. Blast heard, seen, and felt 5 miles away in DC. Authorities do not know what was going on inside.

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"This looks like a war zone; it really does," said Indianapolis Fire Lt. Bonnie Hensley about the abvoe explosion, which took place at 11 p.m. Saturday and displaced around 200 people. "I was sleeping on the sofa and all of a sudden, my upstairs windows were blowing out and my front door was falling in," said 59-year-old Pam Brainerd regarding the explosion, which happened in her sleep. "My front door came off the frame. It was the largest bang I've ever heard." The explosion killed at least two, destroyed two homes and damaged at least 14 homes; authorities suspect natural gas.