 An explosion at a hotel in Fort Worth, Texas on Monday littered downtown streets with large section of building and debris and injured multiple people, authorities said investigators believe the blast was caused by natural gas, said bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives spokesperson Sarah Abel, who was briefed by local police aerial footage in Fort Worth, Texas, showed debris from the hotel scattered across downtown streets as authorities said they were responding to a major incident and urged people to avoid the area. The Sandman Signature Hotel is in a busy area of downtown about one block from the Fort Worth Convention Center, Fort Worth City Councilman Carlos Flores posted on Facebook that there had been a gas leak and an explosion, the city's emergency medical service has sent nine ambulances to the scene and found multiple people injured, although a spokesperson could not immediately say how many. Desiree Partain of MedStar said there are not any fatalities reported so far but stressed that they were still assessing the situation, Partain said she could not characterize the types of injuries that medical staff were finding and said she did not know their cause.