Updated: Three Injured in Aqueduct Road Fire

Three people were hurt after a fire tore through an Aqueduct Road home Wednesday night. One of the injured was a small child who was taken to Hasbro Children's Hospital with critical injuries.

According to Cranston Fire Department Dep. Chief Keith Newman, the call came in at 9:50 p.m. for a report of a fire at 319 Aqueduct Road. Seventeen fire vehicles responded to the scene. 

Officers and firefighters who first arrived on scene saw the rear portion of the house fully engulfed in flames.

A witness told NBC 10 that he came home and saw a woman holding her baby standing outside the house when a man burst from the door, engulfed in flames. Then he heard an explosion.

"She was out there screaming and (the man) came out running, there was an explosion and flames came out the back," Ralph Orleck told NBC 10.

All three suffered burns and the adults were taken to Rhode Island Hospital.

Police said the occupants of the house were related. The father is 33, the mother 27 and the young child is a 3-year-old boy.

The investigation has been going through the night and investigators were still at the scene into the afternoon Wednesday. The house suffered severe damage from the fire. Newman said he could not confirm reports of an explosion, but said it does appear the fire started at the back of the house.