Monday afternoon, Peoples Gas said the building to the south of site of the explosion had had its gas service turned back on.



Neighbors said they heard what sounded like an explosion.



Angela Brooks, 40, who lives on the top floor of the building next door, said she heard a boom and looked out the window to see a thick cloud of smoke.



"It sounded like a transformer blew," Brooks said. "It moved my bed over."



One of her neighbors tried to see what he could do to help before firefighters pulled two people out. "We were all freaking out," she said. "We knew people were home."



Once Brooks learned the people inside were rescued, she began to worry about her car, which was parked in a lot in front of the building and was partially covered in rubble.



McKinley Jenkins, a neighbor across the street, said she heard a boom and saw a blue light when she looked out her apartment window. One of her other neighbors thought it was a gunshot.



"It wasn't a gunshot," Jenkins said. "The whole building went to the ground."



When she opened the front door of her building, she had to quickly close it again to keep out smoke and ashes that began to fly into her hallway.



She eventually ran out, yelling into the rubble and asking if everybody was OK.



"It could've been any one of our buildings, so I just want to make sure they're OK," Jenkins said.