Posted on 05/12/2025 6:19:41 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A New Jersey home exploded overnight, killing two people in a fiery flash that rocked a sleepy neighborhood, officials said.
The bodies of a woman and a man, who had not been publicly identified, were recovered from the remains of the home Sunday along Tranquility Court in Washington Township in Gloucester County, NBC 10 reported.
Neighborhood doorbell cameras captured the moment the South Jersey home suddenly exploded around 2 a.m., with the house completely engulfed in flames in just minutes as first responders raced to the scene.
Officials described the emergency as an “intense fire,” with neighbors confirming that a loud blast rang throughout the neighborhood as they woke up to see flames shooting in all directions from the home.
“I was terrified, absolutely terrified,” neighbor Susan Pinto told the local outlet. “Because I never heard an explosion like that in my life, and it just was, the house was, basically, burning to the ground very, very quickly.”
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So much for being allowed to use Natural Gas in New Jersey.
Show us the video. More than likely it was a gas leak.
Home Explodes on Tranquility Court
You can’t make this stuff up!!
Probably and seems to me with our lives being saturated with computer controlled devices they should be able to come up with a gas line monitor that detects when there is unusual gas usage and sets off an alarm and shuts down the gas until situation is resolved.
They should know better than to have stuffed cabbage for lunch on burrito night
We had that happen to a home in a town I used to live in. It was due to a faulty furnace a local contractor had supplied. (Natural Gas) Two people died when a portion of the house blew up.
The owner of the business killed himself due to guilt over it happening.
A really sad story all around. :(
terrible
Something like this happened a few years ago not far from here. Two people were killed in the explosion. And the wife was due to testify in a lawsuit against....Hillary Clinton!
Is there any other type of explosion other than “suddenly”?
Vaxx.
“So much for being allowed to use Natural Gas in New Jersey.”
You are correct. Joe Biden tried to save them from this! This must be Trump’s fault! /OFF SARC
I saw A story like that on a real life crime show. A very frugal landlord replaced a furnace but did not want to pay for the installation so he did it himself. He did something backwards so the thing blew up killing a young couple. Terrible.
When I was a kid we had a house down the street from us explode from a leaking gas line. The home owner was negligent putting in a gas stove by him self and didn’t seal it properly. Thankfully they had gone out to dinner so the family survived. He had no home owners insurance, so that house became a vacant lot. It also damaged some neighbors homes and he had to pay out of pocket for that.
Wow
Per the below, FWIW, a criminal investigation as been launched...
It was a ‘mostly tranquil’ explosion.
Almost assuredly a gas leak. This is why there is no gas in any of my homes plural. Heat pumps are more efficient even in single digit temps with modern Mitsubishi units.
Induction cooktops heat faster with more precise temp control (single degree F) with Bluetooth probes most importantly with no radon,carbon monoxide or nitrous oxides. As a former professional back of house in NYC no less while at University. I would and so choose induction over gas any day every day with two exceptions both only outside kitchen use. 250,000 BTU wok burner which doubles as the 100 quart crawfish boiler burner. The other exemption is 1800 degree gas salamander for dry aged steaks like every high end steakhouse uses. Peter Luger and Delmonico’s both gas salamander their steaks having been personally in both those kitchens can confirm. There is no need in modern times to have flammable gas inside the home. Added benefit is with solar panels you can go off grid entirely, the gas grid is still a grid and as Texans painfully found out in Feb 21 it can collapse with little warning.
Always remember it was the gas grid collapse that brought down the Texas electric grid there are no less than 4 reports to our legislator confirming and reconfirming that. Has the gas operators winterized their operations nope single digit temps in Midland basin will tank the well heads again for sure, along with the poly surface lines, the gas separators full of water too.
Maybe next year the home owners will buy lots of girl scout cookies! ;-)
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