Family assesses damage to their home

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - Saturday night viewers flooded 24-Hour News 8's newsroom with calls from as far away as Shelby County saying they felt the explosion on Indianapolis' south side. Imagine living just down the street.

We went inside of a home where one family is still in shock by all the devastation.

"It was just one second - things changed. The aftermath of this, I don’t know how long it’s going to take to rebuild those houses," said Andy Wagner of Indianapolis.

Less than 24 Hours after an explosion rocked the Richmond Hill subdivision, Andy and Debbie Wagner are taking inventory of what’s damaged inside their home. The Wagner’s live about a couple of blocks away from where the blast happened, but their home is one of hundreds that sustained damage.

"A lot of glass and as I said a door that got blown off its hinges," Wagner said.

The force of the explosion shattered this window in the Wagner’s foyer.

It even opened the front door which they say was locked.

"You just don’t know where the middle is. You’re thinking that a tank hit the house. I heard people as far away as Franklin describing a truck hit their garage or something and to think how far away that was is disbelief," Wagner said.

When emergency crews cut power to the Richmond Hill neighborhood the Wagner’s electricity also went out.

For 18 hours they were left in the dark.

Sunday evening was the first time they saw the destruction on TV.

"To run outside to see fire and hear people screaming at the top of their, and I’m thinking these people were doing what we were doing - watching TV, reading a book, and that quick, what can happen," Debbie Wagner said.