Southern California house explosion leaves at least 8 injured, including children

CHINO HILLS, Calif. -- An probe is underway Monday aft 8 radical - including children - were injured successful an explosion astatine a Chino Hills, California home.

The blast occurred astir 3:45 p.m. Sunday astatine a location successful the 4200 artifact of Sierra Vista Drive.

Video showed pieces of the location scattered each implicit the thoroughfare and a state enactment built into a partition extracurricular the location was burning for hours.

Firefighters said the state leak astatine the spot was stopped astatine 10:45 p.m., but investigators are present moving to fig retired wherefore the location burst into flames.

Investigators said 8 to 9 victims were wrong the location during the explosion. Paramedics rushed fractional of them to the hospital, and witnesses said a neighbour took immoderate of the young victims to the infirmary by car.

The victims' conditions stay unknown, but the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said it appeared nary were life-threatening.

Explosion rattles neighborhood

Neighbors who spoke with our sister presumption KABC-TV connected Sunday said the blast felt similar an earthquake.

One neighbour and her sister, who did not privation to beryllium identified, told KABC that they saw the victims, immoderate of them children, moving from the burned home.

"They were conscionable screaming for help, saying, 'Ow. It hurts! Help me!' You know, barefooted successful their pajamas. The small lad without a shirt, conscionable successful his sweatpants. It was hard," 1 witnesser said.

"Their hairsbreadth was burnt, they had humor connected their faces," the different witnesser said.

Cameras captured powerfulness crews digging astir the spot arsenic portion of their investigation.

Firefighters said 16 homes from Sierra Vista Drive to Del Norte Avenue were temporarily evacuated to marque definite the country was harmless from further explosions. They were allowed to instrumentality astatine 11 p.m. connected Sunday.