ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. – Just after 9 a.m. Monday, people miles away from a house explosion in north St. Louis County reported hearing a loud boom.

“Flying debris hit me, but nothing cut me. I thought it was just a bomb went off," Stanley Hampton said.

The rear of his condo abuts Evan Aire Drive, where five houses were destroyed in an explosion on Monday.

"All of my glass doors came out. My glass windows, all of it came out. There's debris everywhere," Hampton said.

Jotham Nixon was in his basement three houses down from the explosion.

"Furniture, ceiling, and infrastructure was messed up,” Nixon said. “Insulation.”

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In the surrounding neighborhood, several people were reportedly trapped as the explosion warped doorway

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