A three-vehicle crash sent an SUV crashing into the back of a Herriman fast-food franchise late Saturday night — causing an explosion and fire after one of the vehicles hit a gas line, a Unified Fire Authority spokesperson said.
Officials in Herriman ordered the evacuation of residents near an explosion Saturday night at 13400 South and 5200 West — a moment that several people posted on social media.
Three people were taken to hospitals, a Unified Fire spokesperson announced on X early Sunday morning. Their conditions were not announced. None of them was fire or law enforcement personnel, the spokesperson said.
“Two courageous bystanders risked their lives to rescue the driver and passenger from the burning vehicle just moments before it was engulfed in flames,” the spokesperson wrote on X.
The evacuation order was lifted shortly after 1 a.m. Sunday after the gas leak had been contained, the Herriman Police Department said on X.
Video posted on Reddit around 10:35 p.m. Saturday, taken from a passing car, shows a fire inside the building — and then an explosion blowing through the roof.
Another video, posted on TikTok, showed a Domino’s pizza franchise in flames, after the SUV hit the building’s back wall.
The explosion destroyed the Domino’s, and did damage to the businesses on either side of it — a Jimmy John’s sandwich shop and a Supercuts barber shop, according to Google Maps. The building is about a block west of a Walmart neighborhood market.
A Herriman City water pump facility is also attached to the business complex. Herriman City said in a news release that the “equipment is undamaged and the water supply is safe.”
The news release said that the Riverton Police Department is leading the investigation and anyone with information about the crash should contact Riverton police a 801-840-4000.
The Unified Fire spokesperson said more than 60 firefighters from that agency, as well as South Jordan, West Jordan, West Valley City, Sandy and Draper fire departments, worked through Sunday morning to extinguish the blaze.
This is a developing story.
