Police believe a drug operation inside an Oakland County home might be responsible for causing an explosion that rocked a neighborhood and threw two men from the house.
The explosion happened around 12:30 a.m. Thursday at a home on Arbutus Street near the intersection of Newton and Commerce roads in Commerce Township, officials said.
Tony Lempert, who lives five doors down, has a security camera that recorded the explosion, which he said knocked him off the couch. “It was a large, huge explosion,” Lempert said. “I didn’t know what was going on. My daughter’s car alarm went off.” He ran down the street and saw a home in the 3200 block of Arbutus Street burning.
Two men, battered and bloody, had been thrown from the building, Lempert said. Firefighters confirmed the men were found outside the building.
When medical officials took one of the men away, Lempert found the situation strange.