FAIRBORN, Ohio, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- An explosion in a duplex in Fairborn, Ohio, Saturday left five people injured and a sixth missing, authorities said.
Cleveland's WOIO-TV reported the residence was destroyed and neighboring homes in the southwestern Ohio community were damaged.
The TV station said the blast occurred after a gas line was ruptured during work on the residence's water line.
The injured included two adults and three children. An older man was unaccounted for.
The Springfield News-Sun reported cadaver dogs were being used to search for the missing man, who authorities said was one of two workers using a backhoe to dig for a water line when the gas line was struck.
The victims' conditions were not known, the newspaper said.
Neighbor Cybil Poole said she was sitting in her home when the explosion occurred. She said she found a baby among the injured on the ground in the yard and handed the injured child to its mother before emergency crews arrived.
"It was horrible. It was like a movie scene," she said. "You see this huge fireball and you see people come out of it on fire."
Another neighbor, James Pierson, saw a teenage boy whose shirt and jeans were ablaze.
"I tried to put out the fire with my coat," he told the newspaper. "Soon we got it out and I told him 'Let's get away from here.' He kept saying, 'Where's my dad?' 'Where's my dad?'"
