Gasoline Explosion in San Francisco Bay Space Leaves Houses Broken and Six Hospitalized

A fuel explosion set off a serious fireplace in a San Francisco Bay Space neighbourhood on Thursday (December 11, 2025) after obliterating a minimum of one dwelling, blowing out home windows and shaking close by houses. Six individuals have been taken to hospitals for accidents, fireplace officers stated.

Dramatic video footage confirmed a house within the metropolis of Hayward sitting below a blue sky when it all of a sudden exploded, spewing jagged wooden and different particles into the air as heavy smoke billowed.

“We have been sitting in the home, and it simply … the whole lot shook. Stuff fell off the partitions, and after we appeared on the digicam, it was such as you have been watching a warfare video,” stated Brittany Maldonado, who lives throughout the road from the house that exploded and supplied the Nest doorbell cam footage to ABC7 Information.

Fireplace officers stated they didn’t know if these injured have been employees or residents, nor did they know the extent of their accidents. They stated two houses have been affected essentially the most, together with one other constructing.

The neighbourhood of single-level houses with tidy small lawns and a few companies close to two freeways had been present process building work for wider sidewalks and bike lanes.

Hayward, dwelling to about 1,60,000 residents, is within the East Bay, 24 kilometres south of Oakland.

A spokesperson with Pacific Gasoline & Electrical Co stated a building crew broken an underground fuel line round 7.35 am. The corporate stated it was not their employees.

Utility employees remoted the broken line and stopped the stream of fuel at 9.25 am, PG&E stated. The explosion occurred shortly afterward.

The doorbell video confirmed a big excavator getting used to dig in entrance of the house that exploded as a employee stood close by.

Inside moments, a large explosion and flames blew out the partitions and the roof of the house. Individuals close by seemed to be dazed for a number of seconds, earlier than working towards the house to seek for any victims. A number of employees lifted a big piece of particles from the place it landed close to the excavator.

Sirens could possibly be heard within the distance as police arrived on the scene, whereas flames started to unfold on the web site of the demolished constructing.