Medina apartment explosion
MEDINA, Ohio — A bedridden 18-year-old has died Thursday after an explosion at a Medina apartment.
Medina Fire Department Chief Bob Painter said a unit in the Medina Village Apartments Springbrook Road exploded about 3:15 a.m. followed by a fire.
The teen’s mother and father suffered burns over 80 percent of their bodies. Their special-needs son was killed when the apartment collapsed.
Channel 19 reported that the teen’s mother died after being taken to an area hospital by helicopter.
A quarter of the building collapsed.
The cause of the explosion has not been determined. Columbia Gas is on scene along with the Ohio State Fire Marshal.
Firefighters went into “defensive mode” to extinguish the fire, Painter said. There were 20 people that were evacuated.
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