Incomprehensible: Gas leak causes home explosion, burying couple inside [Video]

Lincoln, N.Y. — Susan and Carl Pynn had lived in their Madison County home for more than 40 years.

They spent their lives committed to helping others, their family and friends said. Before retiring, Susan worked as an emergency medical technician. Carl was a firefighter for the Lincoln Fire Department for 50 years.

The firefighters and others they called friends and spent years working with on Wednesday had to pull them out from the rubble of their home after a propane explosion leveled the two-story home.

“I imagined it must be like what people go through when like a tornado had hit their home, that’s essentially what it felt like,” said their son, Kyle Pynn, 54, of Kansas City.

Susan, 74, and Carl, 78, were found under the wreckage of the home. Susan was pronounced dead at the scene. Carl was airlifted to Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse and was in critical condition Thursday.

The explosion …