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the environment all thank you, thank you. To this point, investigators don't know for sure what kind of explosive was used. San Francisco Fire Chief Keith called in said it was the biggest explosion I can remember and conservatively estimated damage to the council it alone at $100,000.

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But to everyone those who were there when it went off and those who came later to look at the damage, the most important element in the entire episode is that no one was hurt. Pedal Brian for Eyewitness News San Francisco. The bomb exploded about 11:30 p.m.

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It had been placed in the rear, possibly in the basement of the council it, which is located at 3400 Washington Street in the exclusive Pacific Heights district of San Francisco. At first, there had been confusion as to just what had happened with some very early speculation

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that perhaps a gas main had exploded. But there is no doubt now that it was a bomb of some kind of some very powerful kind. The blast, which was strong enough to bend trees in the neighborhood and was heard as faras four miles away, started a

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fire which raced up a dumbwaiter in the back of the building and roared through the roof. The council general was not home at the time, but his three Children and two adult members of his staff were. They all escaped injury. All were in other parts of

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the house, away from the rear of the building when the bomb went off. They ran out of the house after the explosion to safety the council. It for some time has been the target of demonstrations by those protesting the policies of the Shah of Iran, and

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the explosion here came the same day the Shah was hosting a lavish party in his homeland to celebrate the 25/100 anniversary of the creation of the Persian Empire. Last night's blast shattered hundreds of windows in homes and cars along an entire block of Walnut Street, which

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runs adjacent to the consulate between Washington and Jackson and more than windows with structural damage also quite evident in buildings hundreds of feet. From the point of the blast with daylight this morning, the extent of the damage was mawr evident as investigators from both the San

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Francisco Police Department and federal agencies began rummaging through the debris to try to find out what clues they could about the kind of explosive used and about whoever touched it off. Walnut Street was roped off. No one except investigators and residents allowed in. For those residents,

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it had been an unbelievable night for Dr POV is Adul, the Iranian council general. It had been a deliberate attempt to kill. Sorry, I lost track way with daylight. The scope of destruction could be better determined. As sidewalks remained

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carpeted with the shattered glass of hundreds of windows and buildings beside and across the street from the council, it showed their effects of the bomb. The consulate has been the target for some time of demonstrations protesting the regime of the Shah of Iran. But leaders of

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the Confederation of Iranian Students in the Bay Area disclaim responsibility for the explosion last night, and some of the people jolted out of their beds to they didn't know what tried to put last night into words. Way were asleep and the blast went off. We were

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awoken to on enormous amount of plaster dust because they've blown the plaster off the wall. So we had no windows, no shutters, air coverings on the windows. So then it was trying to figure out where you were and looking out at the bay, the lights were

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on. So you knew that it wasn't atomic blast, and you weren't really quite sure what it waas e was gonna ask you what you thought it might have been at that particular moment. I had no idea. The only person I know in the block who realized

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what it was was somebody who had been in the London blitz and he knew what it waas. And hey, it was a bomb blast. And he knew what to do to drop to the floor is over. But those of us who hadn't experienced it really didn't

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know what to expect or what it waas when you look across the street, what do you see? That fire. And then you still weren't sure, you know it was fire and you know it was damaged. And we were only worried about the Children across the street

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on, uh when we realized they were safe. Then we tried to put things together to figure out what had happened. But your first thoughts were you existed on other than that he didn't make much difference. Must have been a terrifying moment. It was. It was a

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terrifying moment, mainly because you didn't know what it waas. That was a terrifying part. You weren't hurt. Uh, you realize you were walking in glass, but you weren't cut. And fortunately, with our heads against a wall, Although we were slapped with plaster, we weren't hurting anyway.

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So you weren't worried about whether you were surviving. It was your worrying about what it waas a great unknown. That's terrifying. Bomb Investigators from the Treasury Department, FBI and the San Francisco Police Department all probe the wreckage and debris today searching for clues to the identity

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of both the kind of explosive used and who used it. At this point, they have not said what degree of success they may have had in either regard. Through it all, with the explosion, fire and obvious damage to the consulate and other buildings, there were no

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injuries. Battle Brian Eyewitness News, San Francisco The bomb exploded at the rear of the council. It it may have been set in the basement. Its power could be determined by the wreckage it produced, which included tilting the three story council it from its foundation bending trees

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in the neighborhood, shattering at least 100 windows of homes and cars in the area and inflicting structural damage on buildings hundreds of feet away. Iranian council general doctor Parvez Adal was away attending a meeting at the time, but his wife, three Children and chauffeur were in

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the house. Mrs. Adeline, the Children had just retired after watching television in a room directly above the point where the explosion occurred. She said she had first thought it was an earthquake that after getting a jammed front door open, she and the Children and the chauffeur

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all ran out of the house to safety. The blast also touched off a fire which raced up a dumbwaiter and shot through the roof of the council. It the council general, got to the scene about 15 minutes after the explosion this morning. He told reporters that

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he knew the names of the persons responsible for it and that it was a deliberate attempt to kill. This is not a political action. This is a professional criminals. Yeah, on the way. No name off the person's. They are illegally in this country You're not home

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at the time, sir. Is that correct? I had I 15 minutes later. What if you know that it's a criminal action? What? What? Specifically against you personally? Or it is a criminal action because e always said those so called student they are first not student. Would

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you? And you are criminals. And you received any threats? This kind of know this was done for killing. The purpose was killing. You can't see the room where we were. Usually we were supposed at that time, Toby all in the television room on it is just

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a just a miracle. We are not way. We're not. There is a miracle. What? Yeah, yeah, I e on the back of that kind of thing. Uh, I believe you told me You smell something when you got Well,

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I had an acrid smell. It smell like powder. Oh, are it was a different smell. It, uh well, I don't know what dynamite smells like, but it smelled a zeiss. A very pungent, very pungent. Did people who came out of their houses at that time realize

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then do you realize that it was a bomb? Uh, no, I didn't I didn't till I got out here, but I knew it was a bomb from the blast. I knew it was something I thought it was a gas humiliation of gas or something like that.

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Then I knew immediately was a bomb because they've always had a little trouble here. Just counseled, you know, they had demonstrations after demonstrations, and I think there should have been some police there on the kind of this thing. And over in Iran. Now, you know, we're

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having this great big celebration. Probably should have somebody watching their last night, so I knew it was Obama immediately want to go outside here so lucky no one was hurt. No one was hurt that there's only one thing where we're concerned about There's a beautiful little

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kitty cat up there, and we haven't seen it since. Uh, it's about time we got there with it. You want? Okay, But it Yeah, very good. Yeah, e so meaty. All right,