UPDATE: K_Hua spoke with the granddaughter of one of the five people injured when an explosion destroyed three homes and damaged 40 others in Port Richmond on Sunday. All of the victims survived the blast though one man remains in critical condition.
Heinsinger, his girlfriend, two other men, and a 64-year-old woman were all injured in the blast.
Responding firefighters pulled Mardula's grandmother out of the rubble. She suffered a broken leg as well as burns to her face, head and arm, according to Mardula. She is scheduled to undergo surgery on Tuesday.“They couldn’t find him,” Mardula said. “He was buried under there.”"The fact that I'm able to sit there and see this, like I survived this, I feel grateful. I do," Heinsinger told NBC10.
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