{"id":1404402,"date":"2023-08-15T23:25:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T03:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1404402"},"modified":"2023-08-15T23:25:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T03:25:00","slug":"watch-five-dead-including-two-municipal-officials-after-house-explodes-in-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/watch-five-dead-including-two-municipal-officials-after-house-explodes-in-pa\/1404402\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Five Dead Including Two Municipal Officials After House Explodes In PA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Watch: Five Dead Including Two Municipal Officials After House Explodes In PA<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Five people have been declared dead and one person is in critical condition after a house exploded in Plum, Pennsylvania, a suburb of the Pittsburgh metro area.\u00a0 The explosion rocked a Plum neighborhood, destroying three homes and damaging twelve others; witnesses reported hearing the blast from over 10 miles away.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udea8<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WATCH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WATCH<\/a>: As Surveillance Footage Captures Devastating House Explosion Resulting in Multiple Fatalities<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udccc<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Plum?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Plum<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Pennsylvania?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Pennsylvania<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Witness surveillance footage captured on a ring doorbell shows the devastating house explosion that occurred on a Saturday afternoon in Plum,\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/99BPR1geRy\">pic.twitter.com\/99BPR1geRy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rawsalerts\/status\/1690793510729834497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 13, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/triblive.com\/local\/valley-news-dispatch\/2-plum-officials-among-house-explosion-deaths-all-5-now-identified\/\">Two municipal officials<\/a>, Plum Borough Manager Michael Thomas and Community Development Director Heather Oravitz, were among the five people killed on Saturday, according to Mayor Harry Schlegel. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>NOW: House explosion reported with multiple houses on fire in Plum, Pennsylvania; reports of multiple victims.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2Uikb9NKxl\">pic.twitter.com\/2Uikb9NKxl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dredre babb (@DredreBabb) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DredreBabb\/status\/1690381786381950976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 12, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Allegheny County Fire Marshal\u2019s office is continuing to investigate the cause of the explosion.\u00a0 In a statement issued Monday night, the office confirmed it is aware that the homeowners at 141 Rustic Ridge, the Oravitz home, were having issues with their hot water tank, located in the basement.\u00a0 However, gas crews <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/plum-house-explosion-fire-officials-sunday\/44802319\">checked for leakages<\/a> following the explosion and determined the gas system had been \u201coperating as designed.\u201d\u00a0 Officials indicated that due to the time it would take to conduct forensic and other testing, the investigation could last \u201cmonths, if not years.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Tue, 08\/15\/2023 &#8211; 19:25<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/watch-five-dead-including-two-municipal-officials-after-house-explodes-pa\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/watch-five-dead-including-two-municipal-officials-after-house-explodes-pa<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch: Five Dead Including Two Municipal Officials After House Explodes In PA Five people have been declared dead and one person is in critical condition&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1404402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1404402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}