Metro Arson investigators said a natural gas leak caused an overnight house explosion near Hikes Point.
Emergency crews were called just after midnight to Houston Boulevard, off Taylorsville Road.
“I heard a voice yelling to get away from the house because it’s full of gas and it’s going to blow,” neighbor Jim Fleischer said.
The walls of the home are gone and there is a hole in the roof.
Neighbors said the explosion shook the ground.
“I guess (it’s) like when they drop a bomb in the Middle East,” Fleischer said. “It explodes. It doesn’t implode. (Debris) came out, (it was) projected forward.”
Investigators said a man in his mid-50s was taken to University Hospital.
They said his condition is unknown.
Arson investigators said they interviewed several witnesses and hope to talk with the injured man as part of the investigation.