McDONALD, Pa. — Two people were taken to a Pittsburgh hospital Sunday morning after an explosion at a car wash in McDonald.
Channel 11 News has learned that the owner of Ducky's Car Wash on East O'Hara Street was lighting a boiler when it exploded, taking out a brick wall and the roof of a wash bay shortly before 10 a.m.
Debris from the explosion fell onto an SUV, which was being washed by Dennis Fodse.
His wife, Amy Fodse, was in the passenger seat.
"I climbed over the console, got out on the driver's side. Bricks were falling. Everything was just happening so quickly," said Amy Fodse.
She and her husband both ran to the front of the building, where they were reunited. Dennis Fodse was injured.
"He has singes on his face. His mustache was singed off and so were his eyebrows," said Amy Fodse.
The explosion was powerful enough to shatter the window of a nearby home.
"It sounded like a bomb went off," said Toni Multunas.
The McDonald fire chief said the business owner, who was also injured, didn't notice the odor of leaking natural gas while he was lighting the boiler in his office.
Multunas said, "I saw the owner walking around, and I yelled and I saw him in a daze."
Officials said Dennis Fodse and the owner suffered burns on their faces and hands. They were taken to UPMC Mercy Hospital.
WPXI
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