汤姆·斯蒂尔（Tom Steele），玛姬·普罗瑟（Maggie Prosser），霍金·崔（Hojun Choi）和凯瑟琳·马芬（Catherine Marfin）
达拉斯晨报
(TNS)
DALLAS — An explosion tore apart an apartment building in south Dallas Wednesday morning, injuring at least eight people.
Dallas Fire-Rescue was called about a gas leak at the Highland Hills Apartments on Highland Hills Drive in the Oak Cliff area about 10:20 a.m. When firefighters arrived, they could smell gas near one of the buildings. The blast occurred while they were investigating, Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman Jason Evans said.
At least eight people, including four firefighters, were injured in the explosion, Evans said. Three of the firefighters were hospitalized in critical condition. The other firefighter and four people who were in the building all were stable.
官员说，建筑物中的每个人都被解释了。
Aerial footage showed heavy damage to one building at the apartment complex, with one corner of the two-story building destroyed and smoke wafting through a hole in the roof. Damaged windows could be seen on nearby buildings.
Evans said the western side of the building suffered extensive damage and charring from the resulting fire, making it too unstable for firefighters and first responders to enter and search thoroughly.
埃文斯（Evans）不愿将爆炸称为气体爆炸，称调查人员仍在努力确定其原因。然而，居民报告说，爆炸前12小时在该地区闻到气味。
Synicia Johnson was at home with her 17-year-old son in an adjacent building at the time of the blast.
”I heard the kaboom sound, and I ran outside to see what was going on,” she said, adding that she saw multiple people who had been injured. “It was like a horror, scary movie.”
Dashun Lawrence, who lives in a nearby apartment complex, said he felt a brick wall in the area rumble after he heard the explosion.
“I heard the boom, and I thought someone had crashed or something until I came over and I saw that the whole thing was on fire,” Lawrence said.
Mayor Eric Johnson, who arrived at the scene early Wednesday afternoon, said, “It looks pretty bad, it smells — it’s a serious fire.”
约翰逊在一条称为爆炸是“可怕的情况”的推文中写道：“请为我们的消防员和受伤的平民祈祷。”
City Council member Tennell Atkins, whose district includes the apartment complex, said his office down the street was evacuated around 11 a.m. because of the explosion.
阿特金斯（Atkins）和约翰逊（Johnson）说，这座城市正在努力为流离失所的居民获取资源。
阿特金斯说：“现在有很多居民可能需要需要。”“住在公寓里的人没有地方可以回去。”
由于社区团体帮助分发食物，水和婴儿用品，包括儿童在内的大约40名居民，包括儿童，被聚集在附近的山溪公寓的树下。一位居民说，该小组自10:30起就在那里。
A spokesman for the Red Cross said his organization was setting up a canteen and working on reaching out to residents of the affected buildings.
Officials did not know how many people were affected by the explosion or how many apartments were damaged.
在书面声明中，拥有该综合大楼的费城山溪（Mountain Creek）APTS LP表示，“在收集信息并等待消防部门关于爆炸事业的报告中”。声明说，物业经理正在努力寻找流离失所居民的住宿。
Atmos Energy的官员没有立即回应置评请求。
Between 2006 and 2018, more than two dozen homes across North and Central Texas blew up because of leaking natural gas, an investigation by The Dallas Morning News found. Nine people died and at least 22 others were injured in the explosions.
受害者中有12岁的琳达·“米歇利塔”·罗杰斯。她的家人在Espanola Drive 3500街区的房屋在2018年2月23日凌晨爆炸了，这是Atmos正在调查和修复房屋后面一条街道上的泄漏。
在致命爆炸后的几天里，大气队在附近发现了28次泄漏。
Federal investigators later found that Atmos had been aware of gas leaks in the northwest Dallas neighborhood for more than seven weeks before the explosion that killed Rogers.
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