JESSUP, Pa. — Firefighters look through the damage left behind along McDermott Street in Jessup after an explosion leveled a garage.
The Mancuso family said their 53-year-old son was thrown from the building with burns on his body. He was rushed to a hospital in Scranton.
"When I got up here, my son was laying there. He got burned, hands, face. I couldn't imagine," Mother Gert Mancuso said with tears in her eyes. "I looked at it and it's like it didn't happen. That was like our little house."
That little house had a television and furniture. Now all of that is gone. The explosion even damaged the back of the Mancuso family's home.
"It's like a nightmare. I can't believe the noise was so strong. I didn't know it was my backyard. I figured it was way out, way, way down," Gert Mancuso said.
A state police fire marshal is looking into cause but it's believed a propane leak may have been a contributing factor in this explosion.
"I smelled propane but I didn't think anything of it. Two minutes later I hear the explosion and my son comes flying out," Father Lou Mancuso said.
The Mancuso family said thankfully, their son is expected to be okay.