A MAN required treatment for leg injuries after a gas blast at a Northumberland house.

The man suffered the minor injuries after the explosion at the house in St Lawrence Avenue in Amble, Northumberland, at just before 10am yesterday.

A second man was given oxygen by firefighters at the scene.

The blast is said to have occurred in a gas fire although engineers said later in the day they were investigating how it had happened.

The explosion caused the house’s front window to shatter and damaged the property’s living room.

Northumbria Police, Northumberland Fire and Rescue, the North East Ambulance Service and Northern Gas Networks (NGN) were all called to the scene.

The emergency services received reports of a gas explosion at the house, the window being blown out and a man with burns to his leg, at around 9.45am.

The explosion shattered the window and caused minor damage to the living room, although it did not start a fire.

Police and paramedics attended and fire crews from Amble and Alnwick were sent to the house.

The firefighters reported an explosion in a gas fire and that all people in the property had been accounted for. A man who was in the house suffered a minor injury to his leg and attended a local health centre, police said, although the fire service said he had been taken to hospital.

Two other men who were in the house at the time escaped injury, although one of the men had to be given oxygen by fire crews.

The gas supply was isolated at the meter by firefighters and engineers from NGN, to make the area safe.

The last remaining firefighters left the scene at 10.29am. The engineers were investigating the cause of the explosion shortly afterwards but an Northern Gas Networks spokeswoman said it had not been sparked by a fault with the gas network, and that the area was “completely safe”.

Two men and a woman at the house did not want to talk about the explosion but one of the men said the injured man was his brother and had received burns to his leg.

He said they were “pleased to be alive”.

He also said the explosion had “happened so quickly” and had left them in shock.

Neighbours said they had not heard the explosion and that they had not known about the incident until hearing the sirens of emergency services vehicles arriving.

One said: “As long as everybody is all right, that is the main thing.”

Neighbours said they had not heard the explosion and that they had known nothing of the incident