OXB MASSIVE FIRE EXPLOSION: 4 teenager have just been found dead in OXB farmland community mourns…
OXB MASSIVE FIRE EXPLOSION: 4 teenager have just been found dead in OXB farmland community mourns…
A massive fire early Wednesday morning destroyed a Miami Gardens home near Hard Rock Stadium.
Miami Gardens police said a resident of the home at NW 185 Terrace and NW 20 Avenue woke to the sound of a loud explosion, discovered the fire and called 911 after failing to find his aunt and uncle. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue confirmed the couple were found dead inside.
Lavaris Roberts is grieving the death of her sister, 65-year-old Rhonda Spencer, her husband of 20 years Timothy Foreham.
“She was church going. She worked and she would go to church. She was the nicest person. Everyone loved her. There was no reason for what happened. We loved her so much and she supported all of us,” Roberts said.
Family members say Spencer was a supervisor at the Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department. Her sister Marcella said the loss is devastating.
“We just buried her son the other month and now with my sister gone, it is overwhelming,” she said. “She was one of my favorite sisters and her son was my favorite nephew and I always looked up to her. She was a strong, great sister.”
MDFR said they received a call about the fire just after 3:30 a.m. When crews arrived, MDFR said they found heavy smoke and flames coming from the home. Firefighters immediately attacked the fire while trying to keep it from spreading to adjacent properties.
People who live in the neighborhood said they heard two explosions.
“It was a booming sound. Boom, like it was an explosion and the Earth kind of shook. So, I’m like what is that? And then another one, but it wasn’t as bad. My daughter-in-law and her daughter were running around and I said what’s up. They said the sound came from the back. When I ran to the sliding glass doors, I saw the fire,” Vanessa Wilcox, who lives behind the home, said.
Tamonjamin Williams, who survived the fire that killed his aunt and uncle, said “I was laying (sic) in the bed and I was asleep and then I heard a loud explosion.”
He said a neighbor told him somehow, he ended up on the roof of the home.
“I didn’t even know how I got on the roof and jumped off the roof,” Williams said. “I called for both of them and I’m looking in the back yard and it’s dark.”
People who live in the area were evacuated due to an active gas line.
