A New Jersey police dashboard camera captured dramatic footage of a gas explosion that leveled a house in Ocean County Tuesday.
Fifteen people were reportedly injured in the blast that “disintegrated” the home according to Stafford Township Mayor John Spodofora. Two of them are in critical condition at an Atlantic City hospital.
The explosion is thought to have been caused by a ruptured gas main, which authorities were investigating when the explosion occurred. Maintenance personnel, firefighters and medical responders were among those injured in the blast.
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The family that owns the property at 59 Oak Avenue were away at the time of the explosion. Seventy-five homes were evacuated, and gas and electricity to 300 surrounding homes were cut off following the incident.
“There’s nothing left there but the basement foundation,” Captain Tom Dellane of the Stafford Police Department said.