PONTIAC, Mich. – Five people were taken to the hospital after an explosion at an apartment complex in Oakland County, officials said.
Firefighters in Waterford Township said they were called at 12:42 p.m. Tuesday (Nov. 8) to the Arborview Village Apartments at Leonard Lane and Fiddis Avenue in Pontiac.
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When they arrived, authorities from multiple communities realized that an explosion at the complex had damaged four apartments -- two of them heavily.
Five people were taken to the hospital for treatment, including two to a burn center. No further information about their conditions has been revealed.
Officials are still investigating the cause of the explosion.
The entire strip is currently displaced because the water had to be shut off, firefighters said.
Here are more aerial images of the scene: