Commercial-grade fireworks being stored at a home in Ontario, California, exploded on Tuesday afternoon, with the massive blast sending smoke into the air that could be seen more than 30 miles away.
Jennifer Nalbandian lives near the blast site, and told the Los Angeles Times there were multiple explosions. The first one felt like an earthquake, she said, and as Nalbandian opened her front door, there was a "boom" that "pushed me back, and the window shattered. I got hit with the after-blast."
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