‘A big boom’: 911 calls released in connection to deadly Mooresville house explosion

MOORESVILLE, N.C. — After an explosion leveled a Mooresville home, 911 call recordings are revealing how neighbors responded after it happened.

Local and federal investigators are still trying to figure out what caused the house to explode.

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The home, which was on Barber Loop, was owned by Tennessee Titans cornerback and Maiden native Caleb Farley. His father, Robert, was killed in the blast, which happened around 12 a.m. Tuesday.

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Several people called 911 around the time the blast happened, describing what they heard as an explosion.

“I don’t know if there was an explosion, or someone trying to break in outside my house,” one caller said. That caller was on Torrence Chapel Road near Brawley School Road and called at 11:54 p.m. Monday.

“The dogs started screaming,” they added.

“We heard a big boom, some kind of explosion,” said another caller. They were on Barber Loop. Then, “a huge explosion. I don’t know if something hit our house or somebody’s else’s next door -- it was huge.”

“It even shook our house. At first I thought it was thunder but there’s nothing. My husband, he thinks a house blew up on the street. It felt like a gas explosion somewhere,” said another caller, who was on Old Arbor Way Road.

A woman also called 911 from Arbor Way Road.

“We had a big boom about 15 minutes ago and we thought something hit out house, so we went outside of it...” she begins. Her voice is frantic.

“Coming out of your house?” the dispatcher asks.

“Somewhere out here,” the caller said. Later, she said there was a wreck outside her house, and that she could smell it and see smoke coming from it.

She called back later to confirm that it wasn’t a wreck that she heard, but an explosion.

“Oh my God!” she says, then, “The house is exploded. Oh my God.”

“I don’t know if anybody is in the house... people live there!” she added.

At this point, investigators still don’t know what caused the explosion.

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