Update 8:34 p.m.: One victim, an adult male, has died from his injuries, according to Birmingham Fire and Rescue Battalion Chief Sebastian Carillo.

The other victim, also an adult male, was critically injured and taken to UAB Hospital.

The investigation was still ongoing.

Original story: Two people were injured tonight when a van exploded in East Lake.

Birmingham Fire and Rescue responded around 7:04 p.m. Tuesday to a report of an explosion, according to spokesman and Battalion Chief Sebastian Carillo. When they arrived, they found an explosion emanating from a parked van on 80th Street South between 4th and 5th avenues that also damaged a neighboring home.

“It was a pretty significant explosion,” Carillo told reporters from the scene, which included about a dozen police vehicles, including a Crime Scene Unit vehicle.

Two people were critically injured in the blast, Carillo said. There was no immediate additional information on the victims.

The explosion also caused the partial collapse of a car port of an adjacent home. There were people in the house at the time of the explosion but they were not harmed, Carillo said.

Birmingham police and fire are on the scene of a reported explosion in Eastlake. Witnesses say the explosion shook homes and cars near the scene on 80th Street South. They said they saw blue flames shooting into the sky. pic.twitter.com/wjeTTVqUMV — Howard Koplowitz (@HowardKoplowitz) November 6, 2019

Center Point resident Sandra Shelton said she was walking out of a nearby beauty supply store when she saw the explosion.

“It shook. It was like blue flames,” she said.

She said she saw a male victim and two young children near him. One of them said “I want my daddy. That baby kept saying, ‘I want my daddy,’” according to Shelton.

“I don’t ever want to see that again,” she said of the scene.

Neighbor Chrissy Tubbs said she lives down the block from the explosion.

“We thought someone was kicking in the back door to get in the house, that’s how loud it was,” she said.

This is a developing story and will be updated.