Dallas apartment explosion: First responding officers describe initial scene, saving animals

One week after an apartment in Dallas exploded due to a gas leak, the first responding officers are describing what the scene was like from the ground through their memories and body camera footage.Responding officers describe explosion sceneIt's been one week since a gas explosion killed three people at an Oak Cliff apartment complex. The explosion injured many more and left them without a permanent home.Dallas County Deputy Constables Jonathan Banda and Vincent DeLuna were the first two responding officers to the explosion. Banda was initially blocked by a Waymo vehicle on his way to the explosion site. He was able to physically move the car out of the way after communicating with car controllers, though the process took several minutes."At that point, he released it to me, and at that point, another engine was coming down that same street with the hoses they needed to deploy out there," Banda said.By the time DeLuna arrived at the scene and saw the inferno, he realized the gravity o