The cargo area of a box truck exploded in Boyle Heights early Thursday and the incident was captured on video.
The explosion was reported around 5 a.m. at 960 S. Grande Vista Ave., according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
Responding firefighters were able to put out the resulting flames, but the explosion left behind heavy damage. Several vehicles parked nearby were damaged and windows were broken in nearby homes, aerial video from Sky5 showed.
No injuries were reported.
“While the specific cause of the fire has yet to be determined, investigators are pursuing the possibility that one of several propane tanks stored within the vehicle may have been leaking,” the Fire Department said in an alert.
Video provided to KTLA shows a bright flash as debris flies through the street.
The early morning wake-up call rocked the neighborhood.
“We just heard like a bomb go off, it woke everyone in my family up,” Junior Garcia, who lives nearby, said. “We really didn’t know what it was, but it was pretty loud, it shook the house, it shook the windows, it scared the family, pretty much.”
Lidia De Los Santos and her family were also sleeping when the blast went off. It rocked their home, the force so strong, they thought it was an earthquake.
Later, they realized all their windows had been blown out.
