At Least 100 Hurt as Blast Rips Through County Jail - NBCNews.com

By Cassandra Vinograd

More than 100 prisoners and corrections officials were injured when an apparent gas explosion collapsed part of a county jail in Pensacola, Florida, on Wednesday.

The blast occurred at the Escambia County Jail's Central Booking Facility at around 11 p.m. local time (midnight Thursday ET), officials said.

About 600 prisoners were in the building at the time. Uninjured inmates were being moved to other detention facilities, authorities added.

West Florida Hospital took in 37 patients with "very minor, non-life-threatening injuries, according to a spokesman.

"All of them have been seen in our ER, treated, and released back into custody," Kendrick Doidge told NBC News.

Sacred Heart Hospital said it also treated 31 patients with mostly minor injured such as as abrasions and neck pain.

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Primary and secondary sweeps of the facility were completed by 1:15 a.m. local time (2:15 a.m. ET) but search and rescue crews were continuing to work in the building, according to officials.

Pensacola had been hit by severe floods earlier in the day. It was not immediately clear if that was a factor in the explosion.

First published May 1 2014, 1:39 AM

Cassandra Vinograd

Cassandra Vinograd is a Senior Writer and News Editor.

Before joining NBC News, she worked as a London-based correspondent for The Associated Press and specialized in politics, foreign affairs and defense.

Vinograd previously worked as an editor for The Wall Street Journal in Brussels and London.

She has reported extensively from Afghanistan and on West Africa and the Middle East.

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