Hayes resident describes massive explosion and raging fire as hundreds forced to evacuateThe Independent
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00:00Last night I was sleeping and around say 11 o'clock I had a massive explosion,
00:05seemed like a gas explosion but I never thought nothing of it, I thought maybe it could be a
00:09car crash and it's only until my cousin who lives a few blocks over there called me and
00:14said he could see a fire from his loft really building up and then literally as soon as I
00:21spoke to him we had a serious power cut, no electricity, no wi-fi, no internet or nothing
00:27like that, the road was out and then went down there, all the residents were told to leave from
00:34their properties and then the fire was really kind of raging quite heavily and then the fire
00:43brigade came, the police came and I think it must have been going on for at least an hour to two
00:48hours but it's a fire, it's an electric station which has been there for years, we've lived here
00:52for years so I've never ever seen any accidents or any fires or any explosions so it's very
00:59strange how that happened and then literally power just kind of slowly came back around in
01:07the early hours of the morning but at the moment there's a lot of smoke in the air, some residents
01:12were told to evacuate last night and some residents were told to go to a local Asda and stuff like
01:18that but I think it kind of came under control after a few hours so it was okay.