Two New Jersey homes were destroyed Tuesday morning in a fiery home explosion just as gas officials investigating a leak in the area evacuated the neighborhood.

At least one more house was damaged in the blast on Goshen Street in Paterson, fire officials said at a press conference. “Nothing life-threatening,” he added.”It sounded like a bomb,” Alberto Volpe, who lives about a block and half away from the blast site, told the Record. “We thought it was a terrorist attack.”(nydailynews.com)…[+]