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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I was in such an explosion back in Feb 14, 1956! I almost walked into it as a 9 year old kid. Horribly burnt my mom and we had to live with her disfigurement for decades.
A natural gas drilling camp north of Governadoor NM. Using well head gas for the camp with no odorant.
Definitely changed the course of all our lives, and not for the better.
Many years ago my wife and I and wo little girls lived in an old small house in Florida. I was taking classes and trying to study for a test when I was getting terribly tired. I got up and went into the kitchen to make coffee and noticed all four stove burners were on unlit. It was an old stove without a pilot. I was suddenly wide awake, closed the burners, and ran three steps into the living room and grabbed up one daughter who had gone to sleep on the rug and put her out on the lawn ran back in got the other daughter who was also asleep and put her out on the lawn, ran back in and got the sleeping dog and took her out and put her on the lawn then took several deep breaths and ran back into the house to open the back door. When I went back out front the kids and dog were waking up. I put them in the car and we drove around for a while. I stopped at an appliance repair shop and asked if the gas man would bring his meter or whatever he used to check for gas. He followed me to the house and said there were traces still but that in another hour it would be safe. I am fortunate in it all n that I do not smell gas. I am sure that some childish fingers had been turning knobs.
That mercaptan is NASTY smelling stuff. It’s pretty amazing you can’t smell it.
Great thinking on your part to protect everyone. I’m glad it all ended so well for you.
I don’t know for sure, but I think these days you can buy alarms that alert for gas. They do for almost everything else.
I’m so sorry to hear that. Burns are the worst and I feel for anyone who that happens to.
I remember that episode. We watch WAY TOO MUCH ‘Crime TV’ in this household, LOL!
But, once I plan that Perfect Murder, it will have all been worth it. *SMIRK* :)
I think the Carbon Monoxide alarms work for that.
I only smell a few things and some are not strong smells at all. Wife has a hound dog nose. Had she been home back then it would not have been close like that.
Here in Florida my gas cooktop and water heater have certainly been useful in the aftermath of big storms (no electricity for a number of days).
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