DETROIT – Neighbors who live in the area described what they saw after an explosion happened at an apartment building on Detroit’s west side early Monday morning.

It happened at around 4 a.m. on March 31 on Littlefield just south of Schoolcraft.

At least 12 people were injured in the explosion and taken to the hospital.

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Neighbors told Local 4 that when the explosion happened this morning, they heard people screaming.

“I was asleep and I literally jumped out of my bed,” said Steffen Moore, who lives near where the explosion happened.

At first, Moore thought it was a crash, because he said a lot of crashes happen in their neighborhood, but then he started seeing people come out of the apartment complex screaming for help and saying to call 911.

“Screaming about ‘babies inside, my babies shook up’. You see people walking down the streets, standing in the middle of the street, you see glass everywhere, bricks everywhere, like you don’t know what’s going on,” said Moore. “Your first notion is to just OK, call 911.”

Another neighbor, William Whitledge, said, “We just woke up to the loudest explosion I’ve ever heard,” and also said that “It shook the house.”

He described the initial sight of the scene as being scary.

“It was scary, real scary,” Whitledge said. “I mean we’ve had multiple crashes on this street, but nothing like this, I mean. It felt like it lifted our house off the ground. It was that loud.”

The neighbors walked down the street to see who they could help after they heard the explosion.

They said people were bleeding and people were screaming, including a mother and her two babies.

“Her babies were burnt on their faces,” according to Whitledge, who said the mother also had bad burns on her legs.

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Neither of the neighbors saw flames or smoke or smelled gas.

When the fire department arrived, the neighbors said they helped direct them to where injured people were located and said that firefighters rescued people who were trapped on the second floor of the building.

The back end of the building looks even worse than the front, according to Moore, who said, “It looks like a bomb.”

The cause of the explosion is under investigation.

Hear everything these two neighbors said about the explosion in the video below: