12 people were injured yesterday, 2 severely, after a propane tank exploded sending a food truck up in flames and engulfing a busy street in the blast.
42-year-old Olga Galdemez and her 17-year-old daughter Jaylin Landaverry were working inside of the truck when the explosion happened. Surveillance footage reveals just how intense the blast was as it sent the tank hurtling 50 feet into the back yard of a nearby home. Flames reached nearly 200 feet in the air.
Area resident Nicole Ellis told NBC 10:
“A girl was walking by from the nail salon and her whole back got sprayed with debris. She was screaming all the way up the street, ‘I’m on fire! I want my mom! I want my mom!’ And then a man sitting on his porch actually got caught with fire as well. It was pretty bad.”
Here’s the full footage from the scene:
Four of the victims remained hospitalized including the mother and daughter working in the truck as well as a 23-year-old woman and 13-year-old girl. Via NBC10 in a post updated at 9:31 EDT:
The 42-year-old and 17-year-old are both in critical condition at Temple University Hospital. The 23-year-old woman and 13-year-old were both upgraded from critical to stable. Police say the 23-year-old suffered second and third-degree burns to her entire body. The eight other victims were treated and released.
Authorities are currently investigating to determine the cause of the explosion.
