W 83rd house explosion

Nothing gets the juices flowing and the heart pounding more than walking into work, tuning into the scanners for just a few minutes and hearing a house explode into a million pieces.

The only other thing may be swiping your entry key card and it has been CANCELLED!!

Thank God that has not happened yet!

So went the chaotic house explosion day. A house had exploded on West 83rd Street in Cleveland, Ohio. The main house in question was gone. There were numerous other houses and buildings affected in the neighborhood.

We were on it. Believe it or not, the emergency units called to the scene were not screaming or frazzled, at least not while speaking on the scanners.

But I heard where they were responding, sent Dave Summers and Mike Leonard...Dan Medsker in his live truck...and then Chris Tye and Chris Kunz to double team this breaking news story.

Dave Summers covered what we call the 'nuts and bolts' which means he attacked the story that was happening as it happened and continued gathering updated facts throughout the night.

Chris Tye, on the other hand, focused on the neighborhood and the people who were affected by this awful occurrence.

We had it up on the wkyc.com in not time, tweeted it, teased the heck out of it......we were on the top of our game from beginning to end.

Again, it's great to know your contacts so well that you can call them on their cell phones and get the skinny. That's what we did with the Fire PIO guy as well as the Media Rep from Dominion East Ohio.

It's nice when you know about something way before the viewer calls start rolling in.....when our viewers began asking what happened and where, I could tell them. Most of the viewers calling in either felt the boom or heard the noise.

I called my niece, who lives blocks and blocks away but you can never be too sure. She and the dogs were fine and nothing in her house was smashed, broken or destroyed.

This is the 2nd Monday in a row where we had breaking news right off the bat. Last Monday we had a plane crash in Lorain County. Today, a house explode. I'm ok with not having ANYTHING disastrous happen next Monday!