Crews investigate "suspicious" camper explosion

HUNTINGTON COUNTY, Ind. (WANE)  Crews in Huntington County are investigating what they call a suspicious explosion.  Officials said a camper exploded in a rural area just north of Andrews Thursday evening.  No one was hurt.

Fire crews were still on scene Friday morning.  Andrews Fire Chief Tom Wuensch said he’s not sure why an abandoned camper sitting in the middle of some thick woods exploded.

Wuensch said around 7:00 p.m. Thursday, the property owner's son and his friend saw a glow coming from the camper.  As they walked toward it, the camper exploded.

The explosion caught the woods on fire.  Crews arrived and extinguished the flames.  Wuensch said the scene could have ended a lot worse.

“Luckily it rained or we would have had 400 acres of woods on fire.  That would have used about every resource we had in Huntington and we would have been calling Wabash in to help because it's all heavy, dense marshy woods,” Wuensch said.  “It would have just been a nightmare if we wouldn't have gotten the rain when we did.”

Wuensch called the explosion very unusual.  Officials do not think it was a meth-related explosion.  The Indiana State Fire Marshal’s Office has been called in to investigate.