BRISTOL, Pa.—Rescuers braved shooting flames, falling debris and the threat of more explosions to evacuate dozens of nursing home residents after a blast ripped through a Pennsylvania facility, killing a resident and an employee, and setting off a frantic search of the wreckage.
Officials said Wednesday they’d located everybody after hours of looking.
The police chief of Bristol Township said he’d “never seen such heroism,” and a speech therapist working there described feeling the building shake in Tuesday’s blast and hurriedly wheeling out a bed-bound resident, bed and all.
“They were running into a building that I could—from 50 feet away—could still smell gas, and walls that looked like they were going to fall down,” Police Chief Charles Winik told reporters Wednesday….