A three-vehicle accident sent an SUV crashing into the back of a Herriman fast-food franchise late Saturday night — causing an explosion and fire after the vehicle hit a gas line, a Unified Fire Authority spokesperson said.
An area of Herriman is under evacuation orders, after an explosion hit two adjoining fast-food locations. Multiple injuries have been reported.
A three-vehicle accident sent an SUV crashing into the back of a Herriman fast-food franchise late Saturday night — causing an explosion and fire after the vehicle hit a gas line, a Unified Fire Authority spokesperson said.
Officials in Herriman have ordered the evacuation of residents near an explosion Saturday night at 13400 South and 5200 West — a moment that several people posted on social media.
Three people were taken to local hospitals, a Unified Fire spokesperson announced on X early Sunday morning. Their conditions were not announced. None of them were fire or law enforcement personnel, the spokesperson said.
“Two courageous bystanders risked their lives to rescue the driver and passenger from the burning vehicle just moments before it was engulfed in flames,” the spokesperson wrote on X.
The evacuation was ordered because of a gas leak. According to the Herriman Police Department’s X account, the evacuation was limited to residents of Terra Cruz Lane and Parasol Lane.
Video posted on Reddit around 10:35 p.m. Saturday, taken from a passing car, shows a fire inside the building — and then an explosion blowing through the roof.
Another video, posted on TikTok, showed a Domino’s pizza franchise in flames, after the SUV hit the building’s back wall.
The explosion destroyed the Domino’s, and did damage to the businesses on either side of it — a Jimmy John’s sandwich shop and a Supercuts barber shop, according to Google Maps. The building is about a block west of a Walmart neighborhood market.
The Unified Fire spokesperson said more than 60 firefighters from that agency, as well as South Jordan, West Jordan, West Valley City, Sandy and Draper fire departments, worked through Sunday morning to extinguish the blaze.
This is a developing story.