No one is injured as huge blast destroys terraced home as residents are evacuated to local church

Miracle escape from suspected gas explosion: No one is injured as huge blast destroys terraced home as residents are evacuated to local church

  • Blast happened on Marlborough Avenue in Goole, East Yorkshire this morning
  • Pictures show how explosion left a house with a gaping hole and collapsed roof  
  • One local mother said she felt her house shake at 2am and saw fire outside 

Households miraculously escaped a suspected gas explosion as no one was injured in a huge blast which rocked a street and forced residents to seek sanctuary in a parish church. 

Those impacted said it was ‘like a scene from the Blitz’ as 999 workers cleared the wreckage from the blast in Goole, East Yorkshire, early this morning. 

Families were ordered to leave their homes on Marlborough Avenue as police, firemen and gas workers sealed off the area.  

A gas explosion rocked a street in Goole, East Yorkshire and forced residents to seek sanctuary in a parish church in the early hours of this morning

The blast ripped through one of the houses, leaving a gaping hole and a collapsed roof in the terrace

The blast ripped through one of the houses, leaving a gaping hole and a collapsed roof in the terrace

The whole street was closed after the explosion ripped through one of the houses, leaving a gaping hole and a collapsed roof in the terraced home where the blast blew out.

One person who was there said: ‘The whole street was evacuated to nearby church. A Single bloke lived in property. We heard he tried to do himself in at 2am.’

One local mother, Lidija Jeremejeva, said: ‘Around 2am I heard a noise and felt like our house shook.

‘I went to check on my daughter and saw outside of her window a fire in a neighbor’s house across of street and that the wall of the second floor fell.  

Those impacted said it was 'like a scene from the Blitz' as 999 workers cleared the wreckage from the blast

Those impacted said it was ‘like a scene from the Blitz’ as 999 workers cleared the wreckage from the blast 

The whole street was closed after the explosion ripped through one of the houses

The whole street was closed after the explosion ripped through one of the houses

‘Others are already called firefighters. In the next 15 minutes (maybe less) the fire took the overall roof.

‘Later on, everyone was told there is a gas explosion and we have to evacuate to church.’ 

‘I was told there are no victims. The emergency services left around 8 am. Right now everyone is gone except the workers who cleaned the ruins and the police control blocking half of the street from the roundabout to the middle of the street.’   

MailOnline has contacted Humberside Fire and Rescue Service and Humberside Police for information on the cause of the explosion.