"My brother was exactly where the gas line is. Above it and he just said, 'I don't know the earth split and the sun came out,' and he says he went up flying in the air and that he felt like a lot of weight on him. I assume it was the rubble and that he was trying to get out," said Duenas Ponce."
"He says he was trying to crawl with this hands only and my sister she heard the boom, and was trying to get out and my niece she is special needs and she didn't wake up at all - and so my sister was pulling and pulling and she didn't react, and then she said they were trying to get out and everything was collapsing on them," said Duenas Ponce."
A gas explosion destroyed a Hayward home and left multiple family members fighting for their lives. Siblings and a niece suffered severe burns across their bodies and multiple fractures. One brother described his sibling being blown into the air near the gas line and feeling heavy rubble as he tried to escape. Another sibling and the family's special-needs niece were trapped as the home collapsed; the sister pulled repeatedly while the niece remained unresponsive. The injured were transported to hospital where they remain under care. A brother who was abroad returned after notification from a sheriff's deputy and is now caring for the victims.
Read at ABC7 San Francisco
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