House explodes in Mitchell, man seriously injured

Shelli Porras wiped the tears from her face Tuesday as she stared at the ruins of an exploded house that she said was home to her relative and friend, Jose Aguirre. “I just feel so bad for him,” Porras said of Aguirre, who at that moment was being flown to Minneapolis for treatment of second- and third-degree burns and a partially collapsed lung.

By: Austin Kaus, The Daily Republic