VIDEO: New Year’s Eve explosion rocks neighbors near Mount Dora, sends resident to the hospital
MOUNT DORA, Fla.—A home was reduced to rubble and trapped a resident New Year’s Eve night after an explosion in unincorporated Mount Dora, a neighbor told Inside Lake.
The home on West Main Street in Mount Dora Estates, formerly known as Riley’s Park, “exploded,” around 9:30 p.m. with the resident inside, according to a neighbor, Jeremy Jenkins. The man was initially trapped by rubble and debris but was able to get out and he was transported to an area hospital for treatment. Jenkins provided video to Inside Lake that showed the aftermath and described what he saw.
Video courtesy of Jeremy Jenkins
Jenkins was “sound asleep” when his wife, Dottie heard something hitting the side of the house and then a “huge explosion,” he told Inside Lake. She woke him up and when they went outside, “debris covered the ground like snow and several windows on the side of our house had been blown out.”
Other neighbors came outside, and they realized their neighbor’s car was in the driveway buried under the debris. They heard the man from underneath the rubble and began digging him out. First responders arrived at the scene and rendered aid to the man until he was transported by helicopter to a local hospital. His condition and the cause of the explosion were unknown at press time.
