ROBINSON TOWNSHIP, Pa. — The LA Fitness in Robinson Township is closed for the remainder of the week following an explosion inside the gym Thursday morning.
Emergency responders said they were called to the gym around 11:30 after a water heater located in a back room exploded.
Police confirmed the cause of the explosion was a gas leak.
An officer on scene said one of the gym’s workers suffered a minor head injury from the blast shockwave.
“I was three steps inside, the gas team is in there, and they said, no, no, no, get the hell back out of here,” Joey Lancianese, one of 50 people inside the gym at the time, recalled.
Another patron said he smelled smoke, gas and saw water leaking under a door.
Channel 11 peeked inside the pool area and saw workers fumbling around a dark back room. A water fountain had been blown off the other side of the wall.
LA Fitness employees told patrons the gym would be closed for several days. The gym’s website did not have a reopening date as of Thursday afternoon, though a man in the parking lot said he was told the expectation was that the gym would reopen Monday.
Members were told to go to the Bridgeville location in the meantime.
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