Firefighters in Regina are combing through the splintered remains of a multi-unit house checking for survivors after an explosion Sunday that was so loud, people in other parts of the city reported hearing it.
“We believe that everybody right now that lived in the property has been accounted for but … we’re searching the property completely with heavy equipment right now, pulling it apart piece by piece just to make sure nobody else was in the property,” deputy fire chief Gord Hewitt said by phone Sunday evening.
The fire department said in a tweet late Sunday morning that a “major explosion” happened at the corner of 6th Avenue and Retallack Street, and police and emergency services were also at the scene….