Denver – Ten people were taken to hospitals and dozens were displaced after an explosion and transformative fire in a life center assisted by Denver, authorities said.
The Firefighters responded on the Masonic Retirement Campus of the East Star and controlled the fire on Wednesday, according to a statement from the Denver Fire Department. Ten people were taken to hospitals.
The spokesman for the department, Captain Luis Cedillo, said in an email that the conditions of those they took to the hospital were not known. Another 87 people were displaced, he said.
Preliminary research indicates that an electric line was accidentally beaten during construction work, causing the explosion, the department said.
RESIDENT BARBARA AGCHEY He told Kusa-Tv She was sitting in her chair when the explosion shook the room.
“I felt the boom,” said fan. “The chair shook me, so I knew when the fire alarm occurred that it was real.”
Infhey walked through a dense smoke to leave, but said there were no chaos or screams.
The American Red Cross said in a publication on social networks that its disaster action team responded and that volunteers were working to find safe temporary homes for displaced residents. KMGH-TV reported The Red Cross said that until Wednesday night, all residents had been collected by family members or moved to temporary homes.
