State fire officials took photos and picked the scene apart. They said a big indication, right now, is that a propane tank that was sitting about 20-25 feet from the house exploded.
The owner told News Center 7 that he thinks that he may have left the pilot light on to the furnace, which is something that investigators are looking into. Fire officials said the focus of their investigation will be the basement and the go from there.
The explosion and fire could be seen and heard for miles.
"There was a pow and that alerted the neighbors," said Marge Kirkpatrick. "And we looked out of our window and we could see the flames as high as the trees."
On the WHIO-TV Facebook page, one of our friends said: "It sounded like a huge bomb that went off'," I could feel it," and "We just felt the whole house shake."
The house was reportedly blown apart and burned.
A dispatcher from the fire marshal's office did not have information about the cause of the blast available.