2 injured after explosion, fire destroys house in Surrey, B.C.

Two people have been injured after an explosion at a home in Surrey, B.C., on Thursday.

The local fire department was called to the 2300-block of Iona Place around 8:45 p.m. PT, where crews found a single-family home engulfed in flames.

"It was very, fully involved," Assistant Fire Chief Shelley Morris said in an interview.

"The home is completely destroyed."

Morris said four people lived in the house, which is in a neighbourhood in the northwest of the city. Two were unhurt, but two were hospitalized.

Surrey RCMP Cpl. Vanessa Munn said the two people hurt suffered non-life threatening injuries.

"Based on the initial investigation, the explosion was believed to be the gas line," said Munn in a statement, who said officers responded to reports of an explosion from within the home followed by a fire.

Witness Harpinder Sandhu told CBC he felt his own house shake sometime before 9 p.m. PT.

"It kind of felt like a car crashed into the house," he said.

Several smaller explosions followed. Another nearby property was also damaged, Morris said.

Surrey RCMP say the scene is being held for the fire inspector to determine the cause of the fire.