Two killed and four injured in 'massive' gas explosion The explosion, which is believed to have been sparked by a gas leak, destroyed the three-bedroom £83,000 terraced house along with half of the neighbouring property. Resident Jeanette Dixon, 34, hauled Mrs Rourke's husband Nick to safety after spotting his bloodied hand poking out of the rubble. She said: "We were sat in our living room when we heard it. It was like a massive bomb went off like a sonic boom. I am ex-army so I knew straight away it was an explosion. We looked down the street and there was just smoke, thick black smoke, everywhere. I could just see people running, screaming. We ran down the street and as it cleared you could just see the house was just gone, it wasn't there. You could hear screaming and shouting from everywhere. My partner saw a bloodied hand out of the rubble and pulled out a man. She sat with him for 45 minutes, holding him until the emergency services could take him away. He kept saying 'where's my dad, where's Jeanette?' It was just an awful, awful sound, I can't even find the right expression to describe it. Everyone just came together, I have never seen such bravery from civilians. Resident Cormac Fleming smashed the window of a neighbouring property to reach a stricken Polish baby and a seven-year-old boy also caught in the blast. The construction worker, was walking past the property at the time with his family, said: "We ran over and smashed the window with a brick. Next thing the mother handed me a four-month-old baby and then a seven-year-old boy. Then she came out. They were all covered head to foot in black soot. The main house was non-existent. The whole front of the house came out and a large proportion of the one next to it. I took the baby. I was just acting on impulse. More than 100 people were evacuated from their homes with many being put up at the nearby Grove Leisure Centre. Murial Gaffney, 70, who lives on an adjacent street, said: "We were watching television when we heard a massive explosion. At first we thought it was our boiler in the loft. Our bungalow started shaking like there was an earthquake. I immediately rushed out into the street, and there were loads of people all standing outside. The sound was like a cannon had gone off. The house is only 200 yards from me and it had completely blown out. The whole thing was black and gutted. The one next to it was all twisted, and you could see the tiles had fallen off. The family from the house next door were sat in the street in shock. I saw a baby being carried out, it was still alive, but it was completely black from soot. The Polish woman and her two children were taken to the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham for treatment for smoke inhalation and have since been discharged. Sergeant Bryn Coleman, from Nottinghamshire fire and rescue, said that the situation for the emergency services was exasperated by the fact that a fire had broken out as they met the walking wounded in the street. "We liaised with the local authority building inspectors and the decision was made in the early hours of this morning to suspend operations due to the casualty being certified as deceased," he said. That search is now resuming, we are going to structurally remove the damaged structure in a hand operation to achieve our final overall objective to remove the final deceased person from the scene of operations. It is now a police lead investigation from this point in time. The local community put themselves in a dangerous situation to rescue others, you have to take your hat off to such actions. Police said they were unable to currently speculate on the cause of the fire.