A New Jersey home caught fire and exploded overnight — but miraculously no one was injured because the family had already fled due to flash flooding warnings. The home on Parkview Avenue in North Plainfield exploded and collapsed just before 11:25 p.

Firefighters of a New Jersey town had to battle flames after treading through flooding in the streets Monday night. Members of the North Plainfield Fire Department

Footage shows wooden slats from the home on the ground with other debris. The blast took place around the same time heavy rainfall hit the northeast.

Lina Delgado-Ramos and her family are lucky to be alive after a freak explosion reduced their New Jersey home to rubble during Monday’s flash-flooding mere hours after they fled to escape

Pennsauken police say the local bomb squad will detonate a device as part of a demonstration involving the Junior Police Academy.

It wasn't clear if anyone was believed to be missing in the aftermath. Monday's storms were the second to turn deadly in the Garden State this month. Early in July, three people died when thunderstorms felled trees. Two of them were from Plainfield.

Six firefighters have suffered minor injuries in a fire that partially collapsed a three-story building in Jersey City.