We were in our room last night when we heard a loud bang and felt the whole room shake. We went to our window and saw a big cloud of smoke rising up over some buildings across the street. We didn’t think much more of it other than, “crazy…”.
I decided to go up the street to get some McDonald’s for the food, and I heard some sirens coming and then saw like two fire trucks, some police cars, and another emergency vehicle coming down the street and turning into the PayPal / eBay parking lot. I had to check out more of what was going on. I managed to snap a couple of (really really crappy) photos and a short video on my phone, before a truck drove up yelling at a dude near the building. I talked to a couple of people who worked there who said they heard that it was a gas explosion, but they’ve apparently decided that it was some kind of explosive device and was not an accident.
No one was hurt they say, but the blast was strong enough to blow out a large first story window.
Very crazy…
Here are a couple of really awful pictures and a very small video (I only had my cell phone on me…). You can hear the alarm going off in the video and see the lights flashing.
