Mass explosion levels at New Jersey house, Rocks Neighborhood

A huge burst That leveled a New Jersey house on the early Sunday and, according to the reports, they killed two people who was so powerful that the neighbors said it sounded like a bomb that came out.

The explosion occurred around 2 in the afternoon in the Gloucester County community in the municipality of Washington, according to the police.

A statement on the explosion published by the Police Department of the municipality of Washington did not mention deaths or wounds caused by the explosion. The ABC News Philadelphia station, WPVI, cited sources of application of the law that confirmed that the bodies of a man and a woman were recovered from the debris of the house.

The police department of the municipality of Washington sent all the questions to the Gloucester County prosecutor’s office, which did not immediately answer the request for ABC News comments.

The explosion occurred at 2:02 am and caused multiple calls of 911 of the neighbors who reported a strong explosion and a fire in the area of ​​the court of tranquility and orion, according to a statement issued by the police of the municipality of Washington.

“The officers who responded reached 13 tranquility court and observed that the residence was completely wrapped in flames and seemed to have been damaged by an apparent explosion,” according to the police declaration.

Firefighters from the Washington Fire Department arrived shortly after the police and extinguished the fire, according to the statement.

The cause of the explosion remains under investigation by the Police Department, fire investigators of the municipality of Washington, the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office and the New Jersey Fire Marshal Office.

“It was a very strong boom. I said: ‘Something is wrong,” said Jimmy Gibson, who lives near the house that exploded, WPVI. “The whole house was in flames … as soon as the explosion happened.”

The video taken by WPVI showed damage to at least one house near the destroyed house. The images also showed a car that had apparently been damaged in the explosion.

The neighbors living in blocks of the explosion reported that they were awake.

“It was huge, huge; it sounded as if a bomb was shot,” said neighbor Suzanne Pinto to WPVI.

Neighbor Jill Rauf told WPVV that she, her husband and her dog evacuated her home when listening to the explosion.

“I had never seen something like that before,” said Rauf, added that the house that exploded was wrapped in flames.