FORT LAUDERDALE – Keenan Montgomery started changing five ruined windows at his Southwest 20th Road household Wednesday.
“Nonetheless making an attempt to get back again to usual the way it was ahead of,” he mentioned.
Montgomery and at minimum a dozen other homeowners experienced problems from a enormous blast that wrecked a house at 5206 SW 20th Avenue early Tuesday.
A mother, her two youngsters and their grandmother scarcely escaped with their lives and have been hospitalized.
Houses close by experienced windows blown out, doorways were being taken off their hinges and vehicles smashed.
West Park Mayor Felicia Brunson went doorway to doorway Wednesday to get an exact count of the harmed households and let people know the place to get enable.
“The metropolis will offer info on the place to get aid and everything else we can provide specifically,” she mentioned.
The mayor mentioned at least three family members can not reside in their residences since of the damage.
The town is ready on the fire marshal for a induce of the explosion.
Mark Youthful, a local community activist, has thoughts about what brought on the blast and the city demands to make confident that the owner of the house was appropriately permitted to do perform on the house.
“We have to inquire the ideal questions,” he mentioned.
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