STAMFORD, Conn. — An explosion Tuesday leveled a six-bedroom house in Stamfor🌞d, scattering debris hundreds of feet away. Nobody was ins♐ide the house at the time and there were no serious injuries, authorities said.
The homeowner was outside near a pool house on the property at the time of the explosion, according to Stamford’s director of public safety, Ted Jankowski. The homeowner was alert and conscious when emergency crews arrived and he was taken to a hospital for observation.
“I thought a plane hit my house,” Charlene Heffernan, who lives next door, “I have never heard anything so loud. My house shook from the top down.”
Mayor Michael Pavia said the cause of the blast is under investigation, but authorities suspected gas was involved. He said a 500-ga♓llon propane gas tank on site was under a controlled burn Tuesday afternoon.
The ex꧙plosion left nothing standing of the 6,000-square-foot home in north Stamford. Debris landed hundreds of feet from the house and three other homes in the neighborh🌼ood also caught fire.
“The whole house was gone,” neighbor Antonio Pisanelli “There was just a big hole.”
Fire and emergency personnel from around Fairfield County and New York’s Westchester County responded to the blast.
Real estate re🐈cords show the home has more than 6,000 feet of living space and last sold in 2006 for $1.1 million.