The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/12/11/explosion-in-hayward-neighborhood-injures-six-destroys-two-homes/An explosion apparently caused when a construction crew hit a gas line destroyed three buildings in Ashland, north of Hayward, Thursday morning and left six people with injuries, the extent of which are not yet known. A construction crew, including someone operating a small excavator, can be seen in a neighbor's doorbell camera footage, doing work outside of a home on the 800 block of East Lewelling Boulevard, a residential street in the unincorporated area of Ashland, near Interstate 238 in Alameda County. The home suddenly explodes, and the across-the-street neighbor can be heard on the video saying, "The neighbor's house just exploded!" (See the raw versi

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