Nampa House Ka-Boom Follows Plumbing Alterations
A NAMPA, IDAHO, HOUSE WAS BLOWN TO BITS Friday morning, severely injuring the owner who was in his kitchen at the time. The mechanisms of the blast indicate that it was a natural gas explosion that also caused structural damages to the houses on either side and could be felt a 1/2-mile away. 
Shocked neighbors came out to see what happened and found Larry King, 62, buried up to his neck in debris as a “snowstorm” of insulation continued to fall on the area. They started to pull debris off of him as they awaited the arrival of the medics and firefighters. King suffered several broken bones along with 2nd- and 3rd-degree burns on 20% of his body.
The fire investigators removed several sections of gas pipe from underneath the house because there were indications that some sort of modifications had been made to them. They also discovered that more than one month’s worth of usual gas consumption had passed through the meter in the past seven days.
KTVB-TV Boise filed this video report from the scene:
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