A gas explosion tore off part of a Northeast Philadelphia home Thursday, leaving debris strewn on the ground below.
The incident around 12:45 p.m. took out a wall of a twin home that is split into apartments along Pearson Avenue at Gillespie Street, not far from Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia police said.
Neighbors said they saw a flash and heard an explosion. One neighbor even said they felt a little shake.
"I was in the house washing dishes and I just seen like a flash and jumped down on the floor," John Lepera, one of the neighbors, told NBC10. "The cats were going nuts." SkyForce10 was the first on the scene. Smoke could be seen coming from the twin home as firefighters doused the exposed second floor.