A home explosion in Westworth Village, near the Joint Reserve Base in Tarrant County, injured one person Thursday morning. The explosion on Watters Place, a block north of Westworth Village City Hall, was reported at about 7:30 a.m.
"I was getting ready for work, my daughter getting ready for school, there was a super-loud explosion," one man who lives nearby said. "You could feel it. That was pretty much it. It was super-loud, made all the windows rattle. I came out and didn't see any smoke, but you could hear somebody screaming, 'Help me.'"
Westworth Village has a police department but not a fire department, so Fort Worth Fire responded.
"When companies arrived on scene, they found the house did, in fact, explode," says Battalion Chief James McAmis. "There was an adult male patient who had burns on his body. CareFlite was called for."
No one else was injured, but others who live nearby say the explosion knocked sheetrock from their ceilings and broke windows.
"My wife and I were asleep. Our bedroom is on the side of the house where the explosion happened," a man who lives next door to the house that exploded said. "When I woke up, I thought I was back in Fallujah, but my wife was screaming, so I couldn't be in Fallujah."
He says he carried his wife out of the house and grabbed some clothes. The Red Cross was responding Thursday, but Fort Worth Fire says no evacuations were necessary.
The fire department had not confirmed a cause Thursday morning. Atmos Energy responded, and McAmis says investigators will work with the company.
"It's too soon to say it had anything to do with gas at all," he says. "However, absolutely, if you start to smell a build-up of natural gas in your house, the first thing you should immediately do is get out of your house and call 911."
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