Fatal Virginia House Explosion: Here's What Happened

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A 19-year-old man, Turner Salter, died after being struck in the head by a piece of shrapnel a quarter mile from the scene. One video shows smoke covering a neighborhood on Clinton Keith Road as firefighters try to extinguish cascading flames that appear to engulf a corner home. The nearly year-and-a-half-long investigation revealed that Evans was the person responsible for the explosion, Westworth police said. The department didn't release details about the cause of the blast, only that Evans was responsible.

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Bob Maynes thought maybe a tree had fallen on his house when he heard the explosion. Carla Rodriguez of South Arlington said she could hear the explosion more than 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) away and came to the scene, but police kept onlookers blocks away. He cited hospital records that reference a suicide note that he left for his wife, which he said he never wrote. On LinkedIn, he recently posted paranoid rants about his neighbors and a former co-worker. Investigators have not yet identified human remains found inside the home, but “all factors point to that it’s this individual (Yoo),” Penn said. Carla Rodriguez of South Arlington went to the scene after she heard the blast more than 2 miles away, but she was kept away by police.

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An investigation into the cause of the explosion is ongoing, fire officials said. Police asked that anyone with photos or video of the area share them with investigators. Bob Maynes thought a tree had fallen on his house as the blast shook his property.

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WAREHAM, MASS. (WHDH) - Crews extinguished a three-alarm fire that engulfed a single-family home in Onset Monday afternoon, officials said. His social media postings and arrest records suggest the immolation stemmed instead from a place of conspiracy theories and paranoia. The fire just a block or two from the courthouse appeared calculated to draw widespread attention, horrifying bystanders and temporarily overshadowing the momentous trial of a former president.

Mr Clontz and his son lived four houses away from the scene of the explosion. It is unclear why they were there, although family members told local news outlet TribLive that they were likely visiting neighbours. Five people were killed and two others were hurt in a house explosion in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, Thursday night, officials said. ESSEX, Md. — An explosion razed a home in suburban Baltimore, officials said, sending one person to the hospital for injuries and requiring aid from dozens of firefighters to douse the flames. WESTWORTH VILLAGE, Texas — A man who was critically injured in a house explosion in a Tarrant County neighborhood has been arrested in connection with causing the blast, authorities said Tuesday. Flying debris shattered windows and toppled televisions in Oscar Martinez’s home a few houses from the site of the blast.

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She was part of the team that was a 2020 Pulitzer Prize finalist for coverage of a dive-boat fire off the Santa Barbara coast. Shalby grew up in Southern California and graduated from George Washington University. Southern California Gas, the primary gas provider for Southern California, stopped the flow of gas to the property at 1 p.m. During the preliminary investigation, Atmos Energy had ruled its systems did not cause the explosion. Mitchell Glen Evans, 33, is charged with arson of a habitation, a first-degree felony, the Westworth Police Department said in a news release.

Allison Van Lare said she felt the explosion nearly 3 miles away in her neighborhood of Shirlington. Kathleen Boyce, who lives just around the block, said she was watching the house through a gap in her neighbor's yard after hearing sirens all night. Residents could hear and feel the explosion for miles around Arlington County, where the average population is over 9,000 people per square mile.

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“Our thoughts are with the police officers that were injured in that explosion,” Olivia Dalton, the White House principal deputy press secretary, told reporters on Air Force One on Tuesday. The truck was parked in front of a house in a residential neighborhood where the fireworks were found. Law enforcement officials and residents were in the area at the time. Three homes on Rustic Ridge Drive were leveled by the explosion, and about a dozen others were damaged, county officials said at a news conference Saturday night. First responders said there were people trapped under debris, two houses on fire, multiple houses damaged and it appeared “as if one house had exploded,” authorities said. Two people inside the house were escorted out before the explosion and suffered only minor injuries from the blast.

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More than 50 firefighters were treated at the scene for minor issues, primarily heat exhaustion. A 38-year-old man and his 12-year-old son are among five people killed in a house explosion in Pennsylvania over the weekend. Standing in the afternoon chill, the man, Max Azzarello, 37, of St. Augustine, Fla., threw pamphlets into the air before dousing himself with an accelerant and setting his body ablaze. The police hurried to extinguish the flames, and he was taken to a hospital burn unit, gravely injured.

Penn said police responded to the house at about 4.45pm on Monday after reports of shots fired. While the Ontario police have fielded numerous calls about fireworks in the area, Lorenz said late Tuesday that they had not received a complaint regarding the property that erupted in flames. By 7 p.m., fire officials still did not think it safe enough to bring crews onto the smoldering property. With flareups occasionally sending flames into the air, units were pulled back into a defensive position around the perimeter. Video from KABC-TV Channel 7 showed a horse, smudged with black soot, trotting around the property after firefighters freed it from one building’s wreckage. Ontario Fire Department Chief Ray Gayk said at a media briefing that commercial-grade fireworks started the fire at a roughly 1-acre residential lot near West Francis Street and Fern Avenue.

After they obtained a search warrant for the house in the 800 block of North Burlington Street, officers "attempted to make contact with the suspect over the telephone and through loudspeakers," police said in a statement. Horrifying video captures the moment a house was blown to smithereens in western Pennsylvania, killing five people — including a 38-year-old man and his 12-year-old son — and critically injuring a sixth person. The cause of the explosion remains under investigation, the office said, and there is no time frame for when the probe will be completed. The investigation at the scene of the explosion has been completed and the property is being returned to its owners, the agency said in a release. The Allegheny County Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating multiple possibilities, including the homeowners having “hot water tank issues,” Plum Borough and Allegheny County officials said in a news release. Penn said officers attempted to engage with Yoo to no avail, so they obtained a search warrant.

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