an emotional embrace outside of Mount Sinai hospital emergency room caught on camera, *** mother not wanting to let her son go after laying eyes on him very touchy huggy um because that really is gonna hear bad news. Instead she leads donald Adams home Tuesday afternoon as he's walking with *** limp and *** lot of pain but alive, just real traumatic and recalling the moment an explosion at the door of his apartment building in South Austin blew him feet into the air. Was like raining bricks and windows, seals and the frames and everything, just everything raining over me and like I could just hear people screaming and calling for help. The small business owner who was headed home from work in the morning at the time says there was *** smaller explosion that followed. The initial one went off again, *** smaller body aches. I got *** couple of scratches *** little bit glass. 20 year old Antonella whims who has *** gash on her forehead, remembers both blasts as well. She was standing at *** bus stop moments after dropping her little cousin at school, it just blew up out of nowhere. Everybody's having *** regular normal morning. Eight people and injured in the explosion after the Chicago fire department deemed many of them serious to critical. We're learning the other person at Mount Sinai with whims and Adams is also at home. I'm just gonna stay prayed up and you know has got to walk with me. The physical and emotional healing lies ahead
Eight people have been taken to hospitals from the scene of a building explosion in Chicago on Tuesday morning, according to Chicago Fire.Video above: Victims describe building explosion in ChicagoAt least three of those people are listed in serious to critical condition, Chicago Fire said on Twitter. The source of the explosion is unknown at this time and remains under investigation, and the ATF and the Chicago Police bomb unit are on scene to assist.Deputy Fire Commissioner Marc Ferman could not provide further details of the victims' conditions in a brief news conference but told reporters he'd heard the injuries range from "burns to traumatic injuries."Fire companies were dispatched around 9 a.m. local time, Ferman said, and the first unit to arrive, a battalion chief, called for a collapse response after seeing "some sort of an explosion and a partial collapse of the upper floor of a residential building." The battalion chief also called for a hazardous materials response, Ferman said. Authorities had to conduct a "technical sort of search" of the building due to its condition, Ferman said. The upper floor was "compromised," so technical experts were called in to support the structure with struts so rescue personnel could safely search for victims and remove debris. The building has four stories and 35 units, Chicago Fire said on Twitter Tuesday afternoon, and investigators are looking at the top floor as the possible source.Officials were "confident" they had gotten everyone out of the building, Ferman said, but the search remained ongoing. Residents have been displaced, he added, but it's not clear how many.About 135 personnel from fire suppression, special operations and EMS responded to the scene, he said. Officials from gas, water and electric utilities were also on scene, Ferman said.
Eight people have been taken to hospitals from the scene of a building explosion in Chicago on Tuesday morning, according to Chicago Fire.
Video above: Victims describe building explosion in Chicago
At least three of those people are listed in serious to critical condition, Chicago Fire said on Twitter. The source of the explosion is unknown at this time and remains under investigation, and the ATF and the Chicago Police bomb unit are on scene to assist.
Deputy Fire Commissioner Marc Ferman could not provide further details of the victims' conditions in a brief news conference but told reporters he'd heard the injuries range from "burns to traumatic injuries."
Fire companies were dispatched around 9 a.m. local time, Ferman said, and the first unit to arrive, a battalion chief, called for a collapse response after seeing "some sort of an explosion and a partial collapse of the upper floor of a residential building." The battalion chief also called for a hazardous materials response, Ferman said.
Authorities had to conduct a "technical sort of search" of the building due to its condition, Ferman said. The upper floor was "compromised," so technical experts were called in to support the structure with struts so rescue personnel could safely search for victims and remove debris.
The building has four stories and 35 units, Chicago Fire said on Twitter Tuesday afternoon, and investigators are looking at the top floor as the possible source.
Officials were "confident" they had gotten everyone out of the building, Ferman said, but the search remained ongoing. Residents have been displaced, he added, but it's not clear how many.
About 135 personnel from fire suppression, special operations and EMS responded to the scene, he said. Officials from gas, water and electric utilities were also on scene, Ferman said.
