SELMER, Tennessee — She pulled Polaroid pictures from the debris pile that was once her home. Stacy Thompson sifted through the rubble in this flat, warped landscape of schrapnel and debris. She picked the pictures out of the clay mud.

SOUTHGATE, Mich. -- An explosion destroyed a house before dawn Thursday in suburban Detroit, killing a woman who was trapped in the rubble and severely injuring a man who was blown to the front yard. “Both had extensive burns and internal injuries,” Southgate police Det. Sgt. Nathan Mosczynski said. “The woman also had an extensive leg injury.”

Victims have been found to survive for more than two weeks trapped under rubble if they have access to water. However, search and rescue attempts are usually halted around a week after a disaster if no-one has been found alive in the previous day or two.

A neighboring home was damaged during the explosion, Mosczynski said. A woman in the home suffered minor head trauma when she fell during the blast, but she refused rescue, police said. Officials are treating the explosion as a “gas-related” incident, but the exact cause of the blast is still under investigation, according to police.

Southgate police say a 37-year-old woman who was pulled out of the rubble following an early morning house explosion on Thursday has since passed away from her injuries.

Scores of people are missing in the ruins of a high-rise building that was felled by the quake in Myanmar. Signs of life raised hopes on Saturday, but there was no update on survivors.