By Associated Press
LE MARS, Iowa (AP) — An explosion destroyed two houses in the northwest Iowa city of Le Mars and injured three people.
The explosion Wednesday morning demolished two adjacent houses and damaged a third house.
Le Mars Fire-Rescue Chief Dave Schipper told the Sioux City Journal that the three people who were injured were inside or around one of the homes.
Two of them were taken to a Le Mars hospital and one was taken to a Sioux City hospital and later transferred to a burn center in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Schipper called it “very fortunate” that no one died in the explosion, which he thinks was caused by a gas leak.