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Explosion Levels Home, Sends 3 to Hospital

By Associated Press

07/04/2017

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) — A house explosion in St. Joseph, Missouri collapsed a house and injured three people.

The St. Joseph News-Press reports that local police, firefighters and the ATF are still investigating the cause of Tuesday morning's explosion in the 11-hundred block of Prospect Avenue.

Capt. Jeff Wilson of the St. Joseph Police Department says two men and a woman were transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries after neighbors pulled them from the home.

The house walls were blown out and the roof collapsed into the structure.

Neighbor Paul Saunders says he heard two booms and called emergency services.

Saunders said this isn't the first time they've heard booms at that residence. He said they could be heard year round. He said he has called police because they sometimes shoot fireworks off at night and wake up his children.

ATF Spokesperson John Ham says they are looking into illegally-made fireworks as a possibility for the explosion.

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