Allegheny County authorities tell KDKA four people are now dead, with one still unaccounted for, after a house explosion in Plum. KDKA’s Lauren Linder shares the latest information from Plum.
Search and rescue efforts were called off "due to the weather", but we have a reporter in a sleeveless outfit enjoying a comfortable night for reporting outside. I'm sure that Pittsburgh has many heroic first responders, but I'm wondering if some of them aren't cowards.
I would put money on murder-suicide to get enough volume of gas in our house that's size would take a long time and gives most people warning enough to evacuate if they could so if I had to guess that's what I would say happened
That was a cook house. Seen this before! They explode like professional explosions teams made it happen. Whomever was cooking is not longer breathing. Sure hope innocent people weren’t harmed
I was 6 years old in 1963. My mother had just been hired as a teacher and we moved into a house owned by the school. The previous tenant (Coach Ross) had taken his gas fired clothes dryer with him when he moved. They turned off the utilities and he disconnected it. Then instead of capping the pipe he used his foot to shove the pipe down to below the floorboard and did not operate the check valve. Then the painters came in and painted the house. They turned the utilities on the next day and we showed up early evening after the movers had brought our stuff inside. It smelled funny to me but my mother thought it was the paint. She lit a match to find the light switch and the house exploded. I was thrown 20 feet backwards down a hall. There were fire rings of burning gas everywhere. I opened a door thinking it was a way out but it was the bathroom and there was a giant whoosh as the gas found the oxygen there. I ran back up the hall into the living room. Fire was all around and I was getting burned. I saw a large black rectangle/hole where there was no fire and ran and dove through that. I broke my arm when I hit the ground but I wasn't on fire anymore. My mother and older brother had also escaped but I was much more badly burned than them (I spent the next 4 months in a hospital). The explosion was clearly heard 5 miles away. My point is that we were in the center of a giant explosion and weren't killed. We had a fuel/air mix explosion. This explosion looked to me like a much higher order of energy…like the stuff we were trained to use at Ft Leonard Wood in Missouri.
It sure looked like HE to me. I think meth labs are also fuel/air detonations. The difference is that an explosive like TNT contains its own oxidizer and does not require ambient oxygen from the surrounding environment to combust. Therefore even though the energy released is roughly the same the high explosive reaction happens about 1000 times faster meaning that all that energy is released in about 25 milliseconds. I'm not a chemist but I did go to combat engineer school in the early 80s…clean DD214 if anyone's wondering. So I do know a thing or 2 about explosions and would welcome any qualified observations.
Man there is absolutely nothing left of that house that exploded. That was one hell of a explosion. This has to be from a gas leak. It's also very sad that 2 other house caught fire and are a total loss. R.I.P. to people that passed away.
But gas saves like 500 bucks a year. Gas itself can asphyxiate you, carbon monoxide produced can kill. I guess a leak fills a house n a spark dies the rest. Builders or owners will try to justify it.
Running a ac , heater, or appliance off well grounded electricity is smarter
What a stupid report. There is no explanation whatsoever about what really happened. Houses do not just explode. What exectly is a "house explosion"? Gas leak? Aliens? Magic? Chinese neighborhood police? Do maga republicans blame Hunter Biden for this? What?
If it was a gas leak the other houses would go up too.prayers to the families. I get scared I live in center township where they are putting a gas line in front of the houses
So sad and scary!! Blessings to everyone affected.
Prayers Going Up😢
Search and rescue efforts were called off "due to the weather", but we have a reporter in a sleeveless outfit enjoying a comfortable night for reporting outside. I'm sure that Pittsburgh has many heroic first responders, but I'm wondering if some of them aren't cowards.
Gas. Very sad, the 4 more then likely family. Heartbreaking.
Bullshit!! Did u hear his response?
It wasn't gas. They were cooking meth. Gas explosions are incredible tough to occur conditions have to be perfect. My money is on a meth lab
I wonder how these explosions happen.
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IT'S OBVIOUS THAT MANY DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW HORRIBLE HELL ACTUALLY IS!
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I would put money on murder-suicide to get enough volume of gas in our house that's size would take a long time and gives most people warning enough to evacuate if they could so if I had to guess that's what I would say happened
R.I.P 😢🙏🏽🕊🦅🏞🇦🇷💙🤟🏽
Skill issue
This is all Trumps doing. Indict Trump for this too.
That wasn’t a gas explosion 🙄 more like a dew weapon just like Maui and Paradise Cali 😢you’re not fooling anyone 🤦🏻♀️
Amen
This is tragic. 💔
😮
Dozens of home damaged? A bomb go off?
And just like that….
Unstability of reactive chemicals and an adequate amount of heat in a lab is just as forcefully combustable as a leak of gas fumes and a single spark.
Let me guess math lab
Im sorry….but I cant help but wonder who lived in these houses and what they were into.
😢🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
That was a cook house. Seen this before! They explode like professional explosions teams made it happen. Whomever was cooking is not longer breathing. Sure hope innocent people weren’t harmed
Big question, why?
I was 6 years old in 1963. My mother had just been hired as a teacher and we moved into a house owned by the school. The previous tenant (Coach Ross) had taken his gas fired clothes dryer with him when he moved. They turned off the utilities and he disconnected it. Then instead of capping the pipe he used his foot to shove the pipe down to below the floorboard and did not operate the check valve. Then the painters came in and painted the house. They turned the utilities on the next day and we showed up early evening after the movers had brought our stuff inside. It smelled funny to me but my mother thought it was the paint. She lit a match to find the light switch and the house exploded.
I was thrown 20 feet backwards down a hall. There were fire rings of burning gas everywhere. I opened a door thinking it was a way out but it was the bathroom and there was a giant whoosh as the gas found the oxygen there. I ran back up the hall into the living room. Fire was all around and I was getting burned. I saw a large black rectangle/hole where there was no fire and ran and dove through that. I broke my arm when I hit the ground but I wasn't on fire anymore. My mother and older brother had also escaped but I was much more badly burned than them (I spent the next 4 months in a hospital). The explosion was clearly heard 5 miles away.
My point is that we were in the center of a giant explosion and weren't killed. We had a fuel/air mix explosion. This explosion looked to me like a much higher order of energy…like the stuff we were trained to use at Ft Leonard Wood in Missouri.
It sure looked like HE to me. I think meth labs are also fuel/air detonations. The difference is that an explosive like TNT contains its own oxidizer and does not require ambient oxygen from the surrounding environment to combust. Therefore even though the energy released is roughly the same the high explosive reaction happens about 1000 times faster meaning that all that energy is released in about 25 milliseconds. I'm not a chemist but I did go to combat engineer school in the early 80s…clean DD214 if anyone's wondering.
So I do know a thing or 2 about explosions and would welcome any qualified observations.
It was strong explosion ,gas?
Seems like a lot of situations recently.
Directed-energy weapons being used by government?
I would think, by this day and age, gas explosions wouldn't be happening!! 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔 🙏 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Prayers to everyone in that neighborhood, in that hospital, and my condolences to 4 of those people who are dead to this deadly explosion.
Man there is absolutely nothing left of that house that exploded. That was one hell of a explosion. This has to be from a gas leak. It's also very sad that 2 other house caught fire and are a total loss. R.I.P. to people that passed away.
Wait a second… what on earth occurred here? The other homeowners definitely need to know about this. That was an incredibly intense explosion.
But gas saves like 500 bucks a year. Gas itself can asphyxiate you, carbon monoxide produced can kill. I guess a leak fills a house n a spark dies the rest. Builders or owners will try to justify it.
Running a ac , heater, or appliance off well grounded electricity is smarter
My God 😢
Looks a lot like a honey oil lab exploded.
I wonder who the victims were and what they knew don't trust anyone
Now 5 dead. A teenager added to the list of those lost today. 😢
I wonder if FBI cars drove by
Big bada boom.
What a stupid report. There is no explanation whatsoever about what really happened. Houses do not just explode. What exectly is a "house explosion"? Gas leak? Aliens? Magic? Chinese neighborhood police? Do maga republicans blame Hunter Biden for this? What?
Very sad News to hear
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If it was a gas leak the other houses would go up too.prayers to the families. I get scared I live in center township where they are putting a gas line in front of the houses
all those people must move from there it is not safe to live in that area my god how sad