The cabins owner found out about the explosion over the phone Friday night. He says the most important thing is that no one was there and no one was hurt.

The blast lit up the sky and sent pieces of Steve Fischer’s cabin flying into his neighbors lake homes.

"My neighbor next door was out on the pontoon. It would not have been a good thing is she was in her cabin. We're just very thankful," Fischer says.

Another neighbor a couple doors down was inside when she says her entire home shook, the lights went out and glass started flying everywhere.

"As we came outside we noticed the doors were all blown out and I saw the whole sky was just glowing orange," Mary Hofmeister says.

Hofmeister says if the blast had happened on a weekend, it could've been so much worse.

"The cabin on the other side, they come up nearly every weekend. They have 10 to 15 kids over there. It's a full house and they play in the lake, they do fireworks outside. One more night and it would've been a total disaster."

"We’re just real thankful that no one was hurt, that's all. That's the most important thing. You feel bad for your neighbors, too. Their houses really got devastated as well," Fischer says.

He says the only thing he could pull out of the pile where his cabin used to be is a couple of kids toys. He says he's not sure if he'll rebuild. But, he isn't too worried about the things he lost. Just grateful for the people he didn't.

"You have to look at things in perspective. No one was hurt. You can always replace cabins. You can replace couches and washing machines, things like that. But, people you can't.”

Some of the Fischer’s lake home did end up in upper turtle lake. Waste Research and Reclamation is working on the clean up. The Almena fire chief says pollution from insulation is the big concern right now.