Yeah, that is total destruction there.
Posted on 07/08/2018 9:08:48 AM PDT by BBell
A fatal early morning explosion that obliterated a two-story house and killed a couple jolted people from their beds as much as a mile and a half away, and sent waves of shock and sadness through the small community of Newfield.
"It breaks your heart," said Wayne Ingling, a friend of the couple who lives in nearby North Vineland. "These are people that went to bed last night like everybody else and they don't get to wake up today."
John, 73, and Carole Paladino, 72, were the only people inside the Oakwood Drive home when it exploded around 6:15 a.m., authorities said. Autopsies Sunday would determine the exact cause of death.
Authorities said the cause of the blast is still being determined, but they don't suspect foul play. The call came in as a gas explosion, and gas was temporarily shut off to area homes.
Ingling, a volunteer firefighter in Vineland, said he couldn't believe the destruction he saw when he arrived at the place where the Paladino house used to be, not long after the blast. There was no house, and debris was scattered as far as the eye could see.
"It just looked like ground zero. Mattress parts in the wires and trees. Windows blown out of the other houses," he said. One neighbor found a Christmas card, he said, and someone else found a Medicare letter.
Photographs of the scene showed a thick layer of rubble across the property, insulation hanging from trees, pieces of the walls lying in a pool, and debris scattered on a neighbor's yard and trampoline. A Daily Journal video showed the smoking wreckage.
Ingling said he has known Carole Paladino for around 50 years, as they were in the same class at Vineland High School.
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Can't post the picture per AP has claimed it but there is absolutely nothing left standing that I can see.
What did they have on Hillary?
Or did they not give her enough?
“The couple had a new stove delivered Friday. I would start there, if you can find it.”
Who delivered and installed the new stove, and is English their primary language.
I lived in a neighborhood where a house was obliterated by a gas explosion. Plumbing crew broke the gas line and couldn’t shut it off. There wasn’t a piece of wood longer than two feet left and the bricks were all shattered. There was nothing left but the basement.
I went to a whole lot of gas leaks during my career, the vast majority of which didn't cause any real damage so they get to routine. But I never forgot that gas has a wide explosive range and can cause an impressive and dangerous explosion under the right circumstances.
In one of the neighborhoods I lived in growing up, two houses were leveled by a gas exposion, and a 3rd damaged so badly it had to be leveled. Leak caused by utility construction in the street nearby. I was at school, but mom said that insulation came out of the sky like snow at our house a 1/3rd of a mile away or so.
Lesson: Take natural gas piping and connections seriously.
Oh, 3 people died in that one.
Being New Jersey you would think that to get a stove installed you would have to have a permit, license, union card, permission from the fire department, OSHA card, inspector present before, after, and during installation, ambulance standing by, police notified, gas company official present with a service truck and a union car, etc.
Of course it would have been better if it had never happened to you at all.
I’ve only had gas in my house once.
In the gas vs oil debate, remember - oil heat houses never “just blow up”.
Or burn fuel oil.
Not a lot of asphyxiations or explosions connected with that stuff.
Those things are great but some of them are so sensitive that you get a lot of false alarms. Cat pee will make them go off as well as a oven that has been opened to name a few. I worked in an apartment complex and base housing and those things get to be a pain. Mostly operator error. People like to put them in the kitchen and that is not a good place. But try convincing a no it all military spouse or member that. They know everything.
True. Oil houses just burn hotter and slower.
Elderly Married Couple Killed in Earth-shaking House Explosion
I don't like death notices involving married people, that give one person top billing over the other.
A house full of gas is basically a pressure-cooker bomb.
Yeah, that is total destruction there.
Cool. AP hasn’t trademarked that one yet.
A little Gorilla Glue will fix that right up....
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