One person was injured early Saturday morning when a truck veered off the road and slammed into a house on Millbury, striking a gas line and causing the structure to go up in flames.
Firefighters responding to a reported blaze on Grafton Road around 2:30 a.m. found flames and thick black smoke climbing from the hood of the truck and up the side of the house.
Brothers Derek and Jordan Mattson, who live next door, said they heard the crash and ran out to make sure everyone was OK.
“The side of it was already going up in flames,” Derek Mattson said of the house. “So I ran across the street and went up to their door, banging on the doors and windows yelling that their house was on fire and that they need to get out.”
Emergency crews say that there were four or five people in the home at the time of the blaze. None of them were injured.
Mattson said the driver of the pickup truck told him he had fallen asleep at the time of the accident.
“He appeared to have just woken up, saw the flames, and tried to get away like everyone else did,” Mattson recalled.
The driver was taken to an area hospital to be treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation.
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