By CJME News

Regina police investigating explosion at northwest home

Feb 25, 2015 | 4:05 PM

Two men are still in the hospital after a explosion blew apart a home on Cooper Crescent in Northwest Regina now police and fire officials are investigating the cause.

Three men were inside the house at the time of the explosion. A 28-year-old man had relatively minor injuries and was released from the hospital Wednesday morning. but a 35-year-old man and a 19-year-old man both had injuries police describe as serious.

The west side wall hangs off the frame of the house and there is a big gaping hole where the front wall and picture window should be. Living room and kitchen furniture litters the front yard surrounded by police tape. The force of the blast is easy to see with couches and chairs flipped over now covered in a light layer of snow.

Sherry Fisher felt the force of the explosion from her home across the street. 

“We heard like, a huge boom and the windows were rattled,” she said. 

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The smoke was so thick, Fisher couldn’t see out her front window.

“I opened up the front door and it was just billows of smoke coming in and it smelled like oil,” Fischer described.

The smoke has lifted and life is back to normal but there is still no clear picture about what caused the explosion.

Colleen Selinger also felt the blast from her living room but she had no idea what it was. 

“Nobody said anything, nobody really knew until later on one of my friends advised me that maybe I should go talk to one of the firefighters because if it was natural gas then maybe I should leave,” she said. 

“He told me that it was not natural gas but he couldn’t say anything else.”

In the absence of facts, Selinger and Fisher both admit there is a lot of speculation between neighbours about the cause. 

Several neighbours commented that they really didn’t know anything about the people who lived in the house. Selinger said she certainly never saw any kind of unusual activity at the house.

“No, no – I talked to the lady once last summer when she was out of on the street – just talked to her casually and she was a very nice lady,” she said.

Selinger heard later that the woman had not been home when the house exploded but she did see her again Tuesday night.

“All I saw was her wandering around the street last night with her cell phone and she was crying,” she said.

On Wednesday fire investigators were still sorting through the scene of the blast. Regina Police Service has also launched an investigation. So far there is no official update about the possible cause of this explosion.

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