A Jackson couple believes God had a hand in helping their family escape after an explosion set their house on fire."I had just, pretty much, closed my eyes," Deandrea Dow said. "We just heard 'boom,' so I jumped up and I saw red."Watch the story.Dow said she and Mario Moore had just gone to bed at their home on West Hill Drive, when they heard the explosion. Dow said Moore jumped up and started yelling."Like I've never heard him yell," she said. "I didn't know what happened.""I just heard a boom, and it was like Afghanistan going on," Moore said.Dow said the couple's baby was in the bed with them."I said, 'OK, my house is on fire.' So, I grabbed her, and I was running down the hall," Dow said.When the couple went to bed, six other children were in the living room where Dow thought they had gone to sleep watching movies. When she ran to the living room to get the kids, they weren't there."So we run outside. I'm thinking they were outside. There were only three out here, which means three more were still in the house," Dow said. "The fire was getting big. I had to go, so I went in through this back room here. I opened the door. Two of them -- my 8-year-old and my 3-year-old -- I didn't know if they were asleep, or if the smoke had knocked them out. My 13-year-old Nick, he was just stuck. He was like, 'I can't.' I was like, 'Nick, we've got to go.' I had to literally get him and throw him out the door to get him to move. Once I did that, I grabbed my two that were in the bed and we shot out."Dow said she remembered that the rent money was inside the house in a jewelry box. But when she tried to run back in to get it, the fire had grown too large."We got out just in time," Dow said."God was with us today," Moore said.The couple said several factors led to their escape. First, the couple came home early from work."We own a food truck and we're there late. We closed at 10 p.m. because it was slow," Dow said.Secondly, Moore didn't lock the burglar bars, which Dow said made it easy for the family to get out of the burning house.Moore said in recent weeks they had reported a gas smell to Atmos. Dow said she called the gas company three times, and workers had come to the house twice."They came out here about a week or two ago. They said they had repaired the pipes and the gas line and all that," Moore said.Despite the repairs, the family still smelled gas, Moore said."But today we find out (from fire investigators that) gas had just accumulated in the house and there was too much in there," Moore said. "When the heat turned on, that's when the explosion came."Atmos Energy is working with the Jackson Fire Department to investigate the cause of the explosion and fire, company officials said.