Fire officials say at least one person died and two were injured after a Maryland house exploded Sunday. Firefighters were called to the scene in Bel Air, northeast of Baltimore, around 6:40 a.m. for a report of a gas leak and an outdoor odor of gas. That is according to Oliver Alkire with the State Fire Marshal’s Office. Alkire said that as firefighters were approaching, they began receiving calls that the house had exploded. First responders pronounced the victim dead at the scene. He said that a home next door to the explosion was heavily damaged. Lisa Czawlytko, who lives in a nearby condominium, said the explosion woke her and her three children and knocked a pet bird to the ground. She said the roof structure on four condominium buildings buckled and sent aluminum siding from the roof down to the ground. Czawlytko attended a news conference at a nearby library to ask officials if it was safe to be in the building. She said she felt the force of the explosion: “The whole building shook like a major earthquake,” she said in an interview. It scared her daughter, 8-year-old Myca. “I thought a bomb dropped,” she said.