California home explosion caught on doorbell camera

Six radical were hospitalized successful California pursuing a devastating location detonation caught connected video. 

Footage from a doorbell camera astatine a location adjacent Hayward successful the San Francisco Bay Area showed a spot being blown up Thursday, sending debris flying into the air. Sirens could past beryllium heard arsenic a occurrence broke out. 

"It was scary," Christian Maldanado, who took the video, told KTVU. "It was similar a country from Hollywood. It was unreal."  

The Alameda County Fire Department said 75 firefighters battled the three-alarm blaze, portion the detonation and occurrence near 3 buildings destroyed and adjacent houses damaged.  

Six radical were taken to section hospitals and the origin of the incidental is nether investigation, the section added. 

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A doorbell camera captured a location detonation adjacent Hayward, California, connected Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025. (Christian and Brittany Maldonado)

The detonation occurred successful the unincorporated assemblage of Ashland, adjacent the metropolis of Hayward. The metropolis is location to astir 160,000 residents successful the East Bay, 15 miles south of Oakland. 

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. was alerted astir 7:35 a.m. that a operation unit — not with the inferior — had damaged an underground state line. Utility workers arrived to isolate the damaged line, but state was leaking from assorted locations. 

Workers stopped the travel of state astatine 9:25 a.m., and the detonation followed soon afterward. 

Gas was flowing for 2 hours, but the detonation happened 10 minutes aft the enactment was unopen off, PG&E spokesperson Tamar Sarkissian confirmed.  

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The location detonation and occurrence adjacent Hayward, Calif., connected Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025, near six radical injured and 3 properties destroyed, officials said. (Godofredo A. Vásquez/AP)

Three structures connected 2 abstracted tons were severely damaged, said Alameda County Deputy Fire Chief Ryan Nishimoto. Some of the 75 firefighters who responded had to backmost disconnected momentarily erstwhile they felt electrical shocks from powerfulness lines that had fallen connected the site. 

"Every model successful my location was blown open," a section resident, identified arsenic Deborah, told KTVU. "There are cracks successful the ceiling. My location is destroyed." 

The vicinity of single-level homes adjacent 2 freeways had been undergoing operation enactment for wider sidewalks and motorcycle lanes. 

Interstate Highway 238 was temporarily unopen down by the California Highway Patrol arsenic authorities responded to the detonation and fire, according to KTVU.

Damage is seen aft a state detonation connected Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025, adjacent Hayward, Calif.  (Minh Connors/AP)

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PG&E told the presumption that 3 of the company's workers were among the injured, portion a household subordinate said the different 3 radical injured were residents of the location that exploded and are being treated for third-degree burns. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.