Jake Booher says he’s trying to figure out his roadmap for recovery.
"So much runs through your mind, you just know that you’re in for a long haul this isn’t what I wanted to do for the holidays," he said.
Booher is navigating the charred remains of his Pigtown home what's turned out to be an uphill climb over a mountain of debris.
"When I got here I had already seen a picture of it but it was still devastating, I was very concerned about my neighbors,' states Booher.
Booher’s address is on Bayard street, the site of last Tuesday's blast explosion and subsequent collapse that left his neighbors a 16-year-old girl and a 48-year-old woman who were inside a leveled corner home seriously injured.
A 70-year-old man who'd rushed to their aid remains critical.
For Booher, it’s the worry about his neighbors while also watching his own problems compound.
"Several people in the city assured me the house would be boarded up I was ready to board it up myself towards the evening when it hadn’t happened," he said.
Booher says his home was condemned Wednesday after the explosion and then he says left open to looters.
"It wasn’t just an opportunistic someone ran in grabbed what they could and ran it took several trips to take what they took," he said.
He says thousands potentially tens of thousands worth of his items were stolen and it happened right under the nose of BGE and other city officials who were on the scene the entire night.
He says he was promised his property would be protected.
For Booher, it’s the growing frustration that his roadmap includes figuring out what was destroyed and now also what was taken.
"I just don’t know how that happened," he said.