Firefighters battled massive flames and smoke coming from a house in Monrovia following an explosion.
The Monrovia Fire Department said there was a report of an explosion at the house in the 600 blocks of East Colorado Boulevard.
Neighbors also said they heard an explosion at around 3:25 p.m.
"My brother came out and yelled, 'An explosion happened. Get out of the house,'" Leo Perez, who lives two houses down from the explosion, said. "I run down and see the house engulfed in flames."
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When Perez said when he saw the property next to the fire site being charred in the fire, he started to panic.
"If the winds are coming this way, I'm thinking our house is going to catch fire, so I started grabbing buckets of water," he said.
Newschopper4 was overhead as fire crews were rushing to put out the flames from the home with thick smoke filling up the air.
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The house next door also appeared to be damaged in the fire.
There were no initial reports of injuries.
Fire officials said one person on the property has been accounted for, but they are still searching for the occupant of the front house. It is unclear if that individual was home at the time of the incident.
