5 dead, 2 hurt in Pennsylvania house explosion: Officials

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• May is off to a wet start in Southern California with cold temperatures and rain over the weekend
• Morning News
• Virginia Home Explosion Kills One Firefighter, Injures More After Leaking Propane Tank Found
• AP AUDIO: Suspect who fired at Virginia officers from a duplex before it exploded is thought to be dead.
• Mysterious blob creatures return to California coast
• Father and son among 5 dead in Pennsylvania home explosion

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.

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On Tuesday, officers wearing Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives jackets combed a nearby street looking through papers scattered in the debris field. Junk mail carrying Yoo’s name and the address of the home that exploded was visible on the street. The person had fired the flare gun around 30 to 40 times "from inside his residence into the surrounding neighborhood," police said in a statement early Tuesday.

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Baltimore County fire officials said they were called to the scene in the Essex community east of Baltimore just after 11 p.m. Following the blast, rattled residents posted reactions on Twitter, saying it shook homes in the area. Three Murrieta firefighters were among the 15 injured, said Murrieta Fire & Rescue Deputy Fire Chief David Lantzer in a press briefing Monday evening.

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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.

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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.

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.

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A class-action lawsuit on behalf of Jewish students alleges Columbia breached its contract by failing to maintain a safe learning environment. But so far, the House hearings with university presidents have produced viral moments and given Republicans high-profile opportunities to denounce campuses as hotbeds of antisemitism. In December, the presidents of Ivy League universities struggled to answer pointed questions about whether "calling for the genocide of Jews” would violate each university’s code of conduct. Nationwide, campus protesters have called for their institutions to cut financial ties to Israel and decried how thousands of civilians in Gaza have been killed by Israel following the deadly attack by Hamas on Oct. 7. “I’m sure whatever happened here was captured on the security camera,” said area resident Kimberly who described the neighborhood as safe and affluent. Clinton Township officials recently concluded a portion of an investigation into the explosion.

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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.

“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.

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.

Lanny Conley, the chief of the Plum Borough Police Department, said at a news conference Sunday afternoon that four adults and one adolescent had died and been recovered from the scene. “The tank was located in the basement of the home,” county officials said. "I've lived here more than 20 years," she said, adding that the explosion knocked down some of her wall hangings. "I walk past there all the time. It's a little frightening to think what's going on in these houses." "I would characterize these communications as primarily complaints about alleged frauds he believed were perpetrated against him," Sundberg told reporters.

“There’s a debris field well into the street and into the neighboring homes,” he said Friday night. A total of 11 first responders were sent to hospitals with “varying degrees of injuries” Friday night, including the one who died. STERLING, Va. — When firefighters arrived at a home in a Washington, D.C., suburb to investigate a report about a gas smell Friday night, they discovered a 500-gallon underground propane tank with a leak on the side of the residence. One resident, Rafal Kolankowski, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that the explosion shattered windows in his house and knocked him and his wife down.

Prohousing communities, which now include 47 cities and counties, aim to support a state goal of building 2.5 million new homes by 2030 by reducing barriers to construction, relaxing housing policies and building affordable homes. “Earning the pro-housing designation requires a strong, demonstrated commitment to tearing down barriers and working to create more housing faster,” Gustavo Velasquez, director of the department, said in a statement. The state credited the six Northern California governments, plus four cities in Southern California, with fulfilling a mission to encourage housing development across all income levels, the San Francisco Business Times reported.