UPDATED Sunday 3 p.m.
DESTIN — A 35-year-old man from Illinois was killed in a car explosion at a vacation home on Saturday evening. An Illinois pediatrian who owns the home was also critically injured.
Michael Todd Brower died at the scene of the explosion at 704 Harbor Lane shortly after 7 p.m.
Dr. Luis Lopez, 58, was rushed to Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola where he was in critical condition late Sunday morning.
The explosion appears to have been a "freak and tragic accident," said Okaloosa County Sheriff Larry Ashley.
Investigators are focusing on acetylene torches that were rented to do work on the house, he said. A meth lab was not the cause of the explosion and there is no indication of foul play.
The State Fire Marshal's Office is continuing to investigate the fire.
Calls began coming in at 7:11 p.m. reporting a large explosion in the area. Destin firefighters, sheiff's deputies and Okaloosa EMS responded to the scene.
Neighbors ran to the house and found a body at the end of the driveway and the roof of a car in the road.
Nearby resident Michele Buckingham said she heard two explosions and then a crackling sound before someone began calling for help
“My house shook. My walls shook. My doors shook. My dogs shook," she said.
Buckingham spent much of the night comforting another neighbor, a mother of three. Buckingham said the woman told her she and her family were driving past the home when the explosion occurred.
The garage door was blown off and just missed them, Buckingham said.
Lopez bought the 3,000-square-foot home in May 2012 along with Kelly Brandon-Lopez, according to property records.
He is the primary doctor at Heartland Pediatric Clinic in Marion, Ill.