NIAGARA, Ind. (WFIE) - Officials are releasing more details on the house explosion in Henderson County from over the weekend.

The fire chief of the Niagara Volunteer Fire Department says there was “definitely” a gas leak and that “definitely the guy was lighting the furnace when this all occurred.”

Chief Glenn Powell says Harold, Kim and 5-year-old Nicole Dover were taken to the hospital after an explosion and fire destroyed their Niagara home early Saturday morning.

“The call came in at approximately 7:00 to dispatch. We were dispatched out at 7:03,” Powell said.

And they were on the scene by 7:10.

“As soon as we got there, we had a guy to start calling for, you know, other departments to come in,” Powell said. “Within just moments, we had plenty of people to man hose lines and the

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