Investigators determined a gas leak caused the explosion at a chino hills home that injured several people, including children, over the weekend. A spokesperson for the san bernardino county sheriff’s department said the explosion was believed to have been caused by a gas leak at the residence and that the blast caused damage to. Authorities are investigating after eight people were injured in an explosion that destroyed one house and damaged two others in a southern california neighborhood. At least eight people were hospitalized on sunday when a home in chino hills caught fire from a possible gas leak, according to san bernardino county authorities. Officials said crews stopped a gas leak at the house but they were investigating the cause of the explosion, which prompted the evacuations of 16 nearby houses. Firefighters in chino hills did not say what caused the explosion sunday, but said that a gas leak had been stopped
Photos and video from the scene showed the house reduced to a pile of rubble.
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