WATCH: Massive fire caused by explosion engulfs home, damages multiple others
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HOUSTON – A homeowner said she is glad to be alive after her house exploded into a fireball that damaged multiple homes in southeast Houston.
The explosion happened around 11 a.m. Sunday at a home in the 6000 block of Doulton Drive near Bellfort Avenue.
Mildred Whitfield captured the fire on her phone across the street.
“This was an explosion I mean it was a ball of fire it was whoop it just went up,” Whitfield said.
Homeowner Jewell Meyers told KPRC 2 photographer Wladimir Moquete that she noticed the smell of gas Sunday morning.
By Texas News Desk
Dec 28, 2020
No injuries are reported after a gas explosion and fire that destroyed one house and damaged three others in southeast Houston on Sunday. The blast happened at about 11 a.m. at a home on Doulton Drive near Bellfort. Fire officials haven t determined the cause of the explosion, but the homeowner, 82-year-old Jewell Meyers, said she smelled gas and went next door to her neighbor s house shortly before her home blew up. The Red Cross is helping the families affected by the explosion.