A gas explosion at a jail in Pensacola, Florida killed two inmates and injured over 150 people.
According to Gawker, the explosion happened late Wednesday at the County Jail’s Central Booking Facility.
“Kathleen Castro, Escambia County’s public information manager, who said she lives about a mile and a half from the jail, told CBS News the explosion “sounded like someone drove into my house.”
About 600 inmates were housed in the jail at the time, according to Castro, who said building’s second and fourth floors partially collapsed after the explosion. The building was quickly evacuated, and the injured were rushed to five local hospitals.
The cause of the gas leak may have stemmed from a flooded laundry room in the vicinity.
A memo e-mailed to the Pensacola City Council said that “preliminary investigations indicate that the laundry room flooded and may have been leaking gas which [was] not reported yesterday.”
The laundry room was most likely flooded by the heavy rain that plagued the city earlier that day.
SOURCE: Gawker | VIDEO CREDIT: News Ice.
