Two folks had been injured Friday in a pure gasoline explosion at a minor league ballpark in Lake Elsinore, hours earlier than a sport was set to happen.
The burst gasoline line precipitated a fireplace that was shortly doused by the sprinklers inside Diamond Stadium, mentioned Maggie De La Rosa, a spokeswoman for the Riverside County Fireplace Division.
The incident was reported at 4:21 p.m., earlier than followers entered the stadium. Two people sustained reasonable accidents and had been taken to a hospital, she mentioned.
The Lake Elsinore Storm, the Single-A affiliate of the San Diego Padres, had been set to play the Inland Empire 66ers at 7:15 p.m.
It’s unclear what precipitated the explosion, and De La Rosa couldn’t confirm the place it originated.
The Storm couldn’t be instantly reached for remark, however the crew introduced on Twitter that video games scheduled Friday and Saturday could be postponed till additional discover “attributable to an incident on the stadium.”
