A Warren County man was in critical condition after an explosion Thursday night blew him out of his house on Warriors Trail in Bovina.

Edmond Wilson, 70, was taken to River Region Medical Center and then transferred to LSU Burn and Reconstruction Center in Shreveport after his house at 7018 Warriors Trail blew up around 10:05 p.m., said Sheriff Martin Pace.

&#8220Vicksburg 911 received numerous calls reporting an explosion, and the first deputy was on the scene in 5 minutes,” Pace said. &#8220He found Edmond Wilson sitting in his front yard, dazed, with the house on fire,” Pace said.

The deputy, a medical first responder, carried Wilson away from the house and began administering first aid, the sheriff said.

Wilson was listed in critical condition at the burn center’s intensive care unit this morning, said a hospital spokesman.

The cause of the blast hasn’t been determined, said Warren County Volunteer Fire Coordinator Kelly Worthy, who was investigating the damage along with Sheriff’s Department fire investigator Mike Traxler late this morning. There is no suspicion of foul play, Worthy said.

Wilson had a gas stove and a space heater in the center of the house, said his daughter, Shirley Walker, who grew up in the house.

&#8220I really believe it was a gas leak,” she said as she and her daughter, Shuron Walker, reviewed the scene this morning.

Walker, 54, said her father, a retired worker with Cooper Lighting, had lived in the house her entire life, but she didn’t recognize much from its remains, blackened and strewn across the lot. The blast blew out windows, threw the front door next to the road, scattered shingles in trees and buried a blue car next to the house beneath a cabinet. A few small flames persisted in the center of the wreckage.

Walker was optimistic, though, about her father’s condition.

&#8220If it hadn’t blown him out, he wouldn’t be here today,” she told a friend who drove by the property.

The blast was heard more than a mile away, Pace said. Wilson’s neighbor, Augusta Smith, said she heard the explosion and called 911 as she tried to see what was happening next door. Smith described Wilson as &#8220verbal” after the incident despite the force of the blast that rocked her house and most others nearby.

&#8220I think it took people’s pictures off their walls probably a mile away,” she said.