A home that exploded in Plum, Pennsylvania, over the weekend, leaving five people dead, had “hot water tank issues' beforehand, officials say.
Plum Mayor Harry Schlegel said the town's community development director, 51-year-old Heather Oravitz, and Plum Borough Manager Michael Thomas, 57, were killed in the blast along with three others who lived in the neighborhood: Kevin Sebunia, 55, Casey Clontz, 38, and Clontz's 12-year-old son, Keegan.
Oravitz’s husband, Paul, suffered severe burns over most of his body and remained hospitalized Tuesday in critical condition, Schlegel said. Two others"A total of three structures were destroyed and at least a dozen more damaged in some way," the Allegheny County Government wrote on its Facebook page Monday.This view shows homes in Plum, Pennsylvania, that were destroyed by an explosion in the Pittsburgh suburb over the weekend.
The government said"at approximately 10:22 AM, County 9-1-1 received numerous calls from the Rustic Ridge Drive and Brookside Drive area in Plum Borough reporting a house explosion, several houses on fire and damaged, and reports that individuals may have been in the impacted homes.
Rafal Kolankowski, who lives a few houses away, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that the explosion broke the windows in his house and knocked him and his wife to the ground.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP"It’s just tragic, I mean, it looks like a war zone – it looks like a bomb hit our neighborhood, and it’s just unfortunate," Kolankowski said."I was just with some of the neighbors yesterday … and now this happens."Greg Norman is a reporter at Fox News Digital.
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