Five people were killed in a house explosion in western Pennsylvania over the weekend. The cause of the explosion remains under investigation, authorities reported. NBC News’ Emilie Ikeda has the story.
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#Pennsylvania #Explosion #News
It looked like a peaceful and exclusive neighborhood.
this place is so corrupt delaneys mental health clinic was handed over the taxpayers money to provide soothsaying and oily skinned mysticism to the borough. they hired all these racist zionists and relatives of police to work in government and replace the native population and tax them out of their homes.
@Monica Fiore Based on financial resources? A cop live there….
@Jolus Can you please just have somefucking respect. You’re commenting about how “💩” the area is when 5 people just lost their lives. Why? We all have opinions on everything, constantly, can you just refrain from acting like a chimpanzee clanking two rocks together for just 5 minutes where you are not just reacting to a tragedy? Ffs. it doesn’t effect you, but I can’t say the same for those that are grieving a loss and reading thoughtless comments such as yours.
By the way, Pittsburgh has been rated to be top 10 in the country to live in for many years across many different lists. We take care of our own which is why property is affordable. Go out west and drop a few million on a home just so you can get caught up in a fatal robbery, in a lawless city, if that’s your thing. Maybe one day they’ll make a news video about it and someone will have something snarky to say about you.
@Cris McdonoughSeriously. I live in LA and a 2 bedroom shack in the WORST neighborhood is half a million. When I say bad neighborhood it’s hard for people to comprehend how bad. Absolute war zone
@Monica FioreExpensive in Pittsburg is not expensive to most Americans.
😮what this is really dangerous rip those 5 that died
This is so horrifying… May they rest in peace
Rip Casey Clontz, Keegan Clontz, Heather Oravitz, Kevin Sebunia, and Michael Thomas, you will be missed
💔😥🙏
Lord have mercy
What did they do for jobs?
the oravitz were hired to work on the planning dept. they might have been incinerated too like children in iraq. they hire all these people who work in government and oppress the local population and raise taxes.
Community politicians. The house owner was a community development supervisors and a fellow employee was at her home at the time of the explosion.
Micro waves from outer space, MTGs space lasers
The space lasers are Jewish btw js
Covering up for the natural gas industry. It’s a lot more dangerous than people think. I wouldn’t want to live next to anybody with natural gas could level your home at any second and not just the adjacent house.
@ 0:58 Presenter/Narrator: “as the cause of the the explosion remains a mystery”… gas has been shut down.
@ 1:03 “at this point we can share that our system was operating as designed” — Hahaha! Obviously not, liar! 5 dead people beg to differ. “The cause remains a mystery!”
Holy Crap!
Trash main stream media.
The biggest story of the week Imran Khan the Prime Minister of Pakistan, government was toppled by the Biden administration and not one word ! Leaked documents prove what Imran was saying was correct!
Authorities aren’t saying a whole lot what the cause of this explosion was, but my theory is drug lab. It doesn’t matter what neighbourhood you live in these days. 💙 May take years to find the cause, we don’t want to freak the public out do we, buy telling the truth?
They were replacing a hot water heater and smelled gas. They asked the man up the street, who worked for the gas company, to come help, the man brought his son prob thinking its just a water heater no big thing and when they arrived it blew up. The area is built on top of old mines, and although they said the gas systems were operating as designed, it doesn’t mean that natural gas wasn’t leaking from the old mines below the property. Gas companies add odor to gas as natural gas is odorless. They could have had a leak of natural gas and never known and then the utility line gas from the water heater added to this, and the spark from the hot water tank could have been the spark that ignited everything, which is why it was so big.
@Jeff412Thank you for this clear and precise answer.
Thank you Ring camera. That was AWESOME
Awesome ? People die!😢
tHEY DIDN’T DIED @Teo The great
Is breaking bad
Oh my God…
Please have mercy on us.
he wont
Omg what a horrible way to die 😲.. Sending prayers from Florida.. Rest in Paradise victims 🙏🏻💛
It was actually a great way to die they never knew what hit them they died instantly blew up in a million pieces. Painless
I will stick living in apartment.
Apartments can blow up to
…or collapse…
Ouch
Impressive. It’s always the ultility’s fault.
Other news said it wasn’t gas and will take years to figure it out. Hmmm
Exactly what I said, ? years to figure this out when the initial report, “it wasn’t gas”!! Then someone made the perfect bomb, IMO.
@TJ AMETH LAB EXPLOSION
It was gas . Read my post
Plum Soccer. Explosion.
If this is a gas leak than that house must have leaks for days to explode like that!!! The way it explode look like the whole house was fill of gas ..
3rd house in Plum, PA to blow up since 2008….
And Everyone living there would of been dead. N they weren’t
@Thegreeneye110 One blew up about 1/8 mile from me few years back. The elderly living there smelled gas I think after having propane tank refilled. 1 year later no definitive cause was explanation. 1 person died. Rattled our windows good. Byrnes Mill, MO.
I don’t think it was a gas leak.
They are saying it wasn’t from a natural gas leak, but that’s hard to believe. The only other thing it could have been was a gasoline explosion because of all the flames it produced during the explosion.
Omg !
LIFE Insurance fraud/murder
😮😮😮😢😢😢
Why do I have a feeling this explosion was intentional?
Irving David Rubin (April 12, 1945 – November 13, 2002) was a Canadian-born American political and religious activist who served as chairman of the Jewish Defense League (JDL) from 1985 to 2002. He committed suicide in jail when awaiting trial on charges of conspiracy to bomb private and government property.[1]
Because you watch too many movies.
@PhillyWest
If the explosion wasn’t caused by a gas leak, what else could it have been?
@Alan Morrisif it was caused by a gas leak there would have been a continuous fire until the gas was shut off.
@M Brown
I know.
Just Pencil ✏️ that in as Pencilylvania not Pennsylvania- Nice Flash Drive?
look like a big bomb dropped from the sky
maybe a thousand pounds one,
remind me Vietnam war
Who knew cheap natural gas could be so touchy?
lol saying things like you know what you’re talking about.
Months to years to determine the cause of the explosion? Wow.
Guess the gas companies counting on people forgetting about their liability in this.
Apparently the homes are built over an old abandoned mine, so my guess is it’s going to take quite a while to figure out the cause (was it the mine, the gas company, something else) and how it happened.
@Galatea Oh wow, yikes!
If these homes are built over an old once used mine, and the mine was a coal mine, like many mines in Pa. are, old or newer, then his tragedy could still be a result of a gas leak – not natural, but coal gas or even methane… Coal is also a fossil fuel, formed by layers of prehistoric plants decomposing and compacted over millions of years, and like other fossil fuels, can and will produce a highly explosive and flammable gas…
typical Pennsylvania
Safe natural gas my A. I Worked in a gas power plant for 30.years.
Do not put gas containers in you garage next to gas water heaters. Seen explosions like this many times
Or at least open your garage once and a while to off gas! My gas container and mower is on the opposite end, near the front next to the garage door, and I still don’t feel good about that. But at least it’s the first thing that hits fresh air when I open the door
I won’t carry gas cans (if I can avoid it) in an enclosed vehicle (e.g., even in the trunk or hatch of any kind of passenger car). They ONLY go in the bed of my pickup. Not only due to the possibility of of fumes lighting off, but what if you get in an accident and get a gas bath? Of course, my pickup is so old that the gas TANK is in the cab, so I’m toast anyway…
Did they know Hillary?
Does NBC News they really fly ‘correspondents’ to places just to get those one sentence’ reports’?
@christysweet9036 What was really interesting was that split camera shot they did with the one reporter in Maui and the other in Pittsburgh. Was that really necessary? Since it’s NBC I guess so.
Why?
why years, this looks more like gas related explosion
america acts like this has never happened before. 😂😂 you do know you 4 to 6 houses blow up a week right? One time you had a hundred houses blow up at once, search Merrimack valley. 😂
yes and out of the 140 million houses in the US that number is almost statistically insignificant. there are a lot of dumb people who do a lot of dumb things, unfortunately.
@bobloblaw9679 using statistics doesn’t change the fact that this happens regularly every couple days in america. 🤷😂
Rustic Ridge Estates is surrounded by shallow oil and gas wells and located atop abandoned mine land. While two producing vertical gas wells are within 1,000 feet of the home that exploded, and a pipeline runs behind the development.
“I’ve been to six house explosions in Plum, and this is the worst I’ve seen in 47 years or 48 years, the worst one, just the amount of damage,” Sims, who is also the emergency management coordinator for Plum Borough.
March 19, 2002 — The trial of the leader of the Jewish Defense League, who stands accused of planning a pipe-bomb attack against Arab-Americans, represents only the latest allegation of violent plots and actions in the group’s 31-year history as an extremist organization.
I wonder why houses would be built on land like that.
Based on photos, whatever caused the explosion was located within the basement of the house, not outside of it or underneath it.
@India Inman – I have no idea, but if that _WAS_ the major contributor to an explosion that large, and not so much a defective water heater, you’re gonna see a _whole lot_ of homeowners making a move from _OUTTA THERE,_ and _SOMEONE’S_ gonna have to do some _SERIOUS_ monetary compensation!
did renko murder children in iraq yet he is talkiing about the need for his children to be safe? they hire these psychopathic cops who mass murdered people in iraq they and their children are the oppressor of freedom not iran not russia.
if renko or the rest of them knew someone like irv rubin was mass storing weapons they should all be incarcerated as they would have know this could have happened.
Irving David Rubin (April 12, 1945 – November 13, 2002) was a Canadian-born American political and religious activist who served as chairman of the Jewish Defense League (JDL) from 1985 to 2002. He committed suicide in jail when awaiting trial on charges of conspiracy to bomb private and government property.[1]
Houses don’t explode like this for no reason.
Man, those cardboard houses in the USA are dangerous af… RIP to those poor souls
yeah and they call latam POOR while having brick houses
@McMerry no house could have survived anything like this. there isn’t any issue with the way america builds houses, normally. and yes colombia is a poor country that does not have its crap together when compared with the US.
Public records show that Paul Oravitz, 56, his wife Heather, 51, and their two children, Taylor and Cole, lived at the property
So Jewish.
who was there at the time, according to Pa news, two male Plum town officials. One was the property developer. The other three: the male homeowner, his neighbor (male), and his son. that makes five there at the time, and they all perished.
why didn’t they call the fire department? they could have evacuated the home.
WERE THE ORAVITZS SUVIVALISTS?
WHY WAS HEATHER ORAVITZ HIRED OVER A MORE WELL QUALIFIED MUSLIM OR PALESTINIAN? IS THIS RACISM? IS THIS OFFICAL CORRUPTION?
In early May, more than 50 Jewish families packed their bags and moved to a hilltop in the West Bank in the occupied Palestinian territory. They quickly erected modular homes, a synagogue, a nursery, and even dug a playground to claim a piece of land they neither purchased nor inherited.
MUSLIMS ARE BETTER PEOPLE THAN THE ORAVITZS AND THEIR CREEPY SUPPORTERS EVER WERE.
God have mercy 🥺
Both Rubin and Krugel were implicated in a plot to bomb the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City, Calif., and an office of Republican Congressman Darrell Issa. Rubin died in 2002, before going to trial. Krugel pleaded guilty the next year to conspiracy and explosives charges, and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Founded in 1968, the JDL has a long track record of political violence and anti-Arab hatred. Given Krugel’s role in the JDL, it would be extraordinary if prison officials failed to segregate him from the rest of the prison population. Krugel, 62, was killed just three days after he arrived at the Phoenix penitentiary.
Wrong video.
What?
were the police allowing the oravitzs to stockpile weapons in an act of official corruption?
The partnership between power companies and the government allowing monopolies and giving them essentially immunity to these gas explosions, even the media calls it some mystery.
Spend more tax pay dollar over 2 years and declare it unknown and not the gas companies fault.
Rest in Peace to the Family
Yep. Because it must have been the line to the meter, only thing the gas company installs and is responsible for, that blew up the house. Couldn’t have been a leaky pipe or appliance inside. Couldn’t have been a space heater valve that got bumped that no-one noticed.
Musta been the fault of the fuel supplier.
Its probably the service station that is responsible with a car catches fire to…right?
Dude! Seriously?
1:47 when the mailbox is built better than the houses.
years to determine the cause? sounds fishy
I mean, who is going to investigate SUBSEQUENT explosions if they can make a CAREER out of this one? : )
Republicans will be like “we still want our gas stoves! Who cares if it killed some plebs!” Then Democrats will respond with “Peaceful protest! Bipartisanship!”
They need to find out what caused it because gas want blow up one house, it’ll blow the whole block up
aint no way any type of mine do that below a home. Remember theres a concrete barrier inbetween the old mine and the house above. and with no ignition. If it were natural gas buildup it would most likety filter out around the house and out through the soil grass. This looks intentional and with the guy having. alot of ammo in the home. i bet he set it off. or made this explosion. Prob filled a room with natural gas and shot a bullet at a bullet round and triggered a big explosion. Maybe parked the cars in garage and did it in there where there could be more fuel feed to the explosion
Nope.
NEW YORK, AUG. 13 — Three former leaders of the Jewish Defense League pleaded guilty today to racketeering charges involving bombings aimed at Soviet citizens here, including a firebombing at Lincoln Center last October before a performance of the Moscow State Symphony.Vincent Vancier, 30, whom prosecutors described as JDL founder Rabbi Meir Kahane’s handpicked choice to be the JDL’s national chairman, could face up to 20 years in prison and $25,000 in fines, as could codefendants Murray Young, 59, and Jay Cohen, 24. All rem
@Mark Brooks NEW YORK, AUG. 13 — Three former leaders of the Jewish Defense League pleaded guilty today to racketeering charges involving bombings aimed at Soviet citizens here, including a firebombing at Lincoln Center last October before a performance of the Moscow State Symphony.
Vincent Vancier, 30, whom prosecutors described as JDL founder Rabbi Meir Kahane’s handpicked choice to be the JDL’s national chairman, could face up to 20 years in prison and $25,000 in fines, as could codefendants Murray Young, 59, and Jay Cohen, 24. All rem
Gas company duh. Lol. These people. Just look at what happened in california. Hope they get other inspectors
the houses that were effected by the blast should get their homes checked for integrity issues
This is a must.
Mindless Fracking !! ??
I can’t imagine this. You’re just minding your own business and then this massive blast happened out of nowhere. That is very scary. Prayers to everyone. You’ll NEVER know when God says your time is up.
god is not real
So you’re saying dog did this? What a mean a-hol.
Amen 🕊️🌠💖🇮🇱🙏
Exactly so true
Can’t build a house there that’s needs to be turned into a private cemetery
Geesh 5 Killed Child Sad Man May They Rest Peacefully
DID HEATHER ORAVITZ HATE NON JEWS? DID HEATHER ORAVITZ HATE ARABS? DID SHE BULLDOZE PALESTINIAN HOMES? IF THEY HATE ARABS THEY HATE YOU DONKEYS KISSING THEIR BEHINDS TOO.
That was a gas explosion
can we rule out a terrorist attack?
it must have been jewish space lasers fired by trans antifa.
Electric car explosion?
It’s like the basement was stacked with dynamite or something. The explosion was so abnormally large, if it wasn’t a prolonged gas leak, I can’t imagine how much ammunition this guy had. Literal bomb. God Bless the family and Peace to those that perished.
It was a water heater that caused it
It was not ammunition. It was natural gas.
It looked like some sort of 2000 pound bomb
real question is what was bro cooking??
Hmm! Looks like what happened to BLACK WALL STREET! HMM!
THE ORAVITZS DID EVERYTHING TO KEEP BLACKS OUT OF THIS COMMUNITY BY REFUSING TO BUILD APARTMENTS AND FALSELY ACCUSING BLACK MALES OF LURING WHITE TEENAGERS. THE COPS ARE ALL ZIONISTS AND SUPPORTERS OF ZIONISM.
What a horrible week in America….. First Maui, now Pennsylvania. My prayers to those who have been affected
oh boy.
I’d be moving.. An old abandoned mine under those homes. How many more are going to go up like that.
It’s explosives or gas
WOW 😳
I hope they didnt suffer during its death
Oh WOW
Wouldn’t surprise me if he was making home made bombs in the basement.
We had 10 of these each day thanks to us “freedom” … my condolences for the victims
Where is this????
@SB LIVE Iraq, of course
nobody cares😈😈😈😈
Maui?
My extended family
This dosen’t look right.
The neighbors are thinking of selling their homes
Baruch Kopel Goldstein (Hebrew: ברוך קופל גולדשטיין; born Benjamin Carl Goldstein;[2] December 9, 1956 – February 25, 1994) was an Israeli-American mass murderer, religious extremist, and physician who perpetrated the 1994 terrorist attack on a mosque attended by Palestinians, known as the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre in Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.[3][4][5] Goldstein was a supporter of the Kach, a religious Zionist party that the United States, the European Union and other countries designate as a terrorist organization.[6]
That blast was so enormous, noway that was a gas leak,they would of smelled it for before it reached that magnitude of that blast
IT’S A GREAT TIME TO BE ALIVE
Obviously their “system” WAS NOT functioning properly. Lieing and denying this will not work.
Another house outside of Pittsburgh blew up last night.
id have to guess the homeowners of the place that exploded weren’t home, since the neighbors were the only ones who died… it looks exactly like the home in Indiana that blew up with very similar circumstances back in 2012 and killed two next-door neighbors, then it was revealed the homeowner intentionally left the gas on, did a hack job on the electrical wiring of one of his home appliances so it would spark and cause an explosion and he could collect an insurance check. He and his accomplices got life sentences. unfortunately, a life sentence only meant a few years before dying of natural causes for the mastermind. if that’s what happened here i hope they are given the book and live very long lives in prison. maybe the world just turned me into a skeptic, but this seems like an insurance job despite what all the people who have trust in others speculate.. it was not a mine or any natural gas.. a mine would’ve collapsed if the explosion came from it causing a sinkhole, that blast had the power of dozens if not hundreds of sticks of TNT, a mine wouldn’t have survived a blast like that internally. a gas line would’ve carried the fire through the line and the fire wouldn’t stop until the line was shut or its run out of gas.. again call me a skeptic with no faith in humanity but this reeks of an insurance job
America is so dangerous in so many ways, on the street, at school, in your house, there is no security at all
Id be scared to live in any of the homes in that neighborhood.
That explosion happened under the home somewhere ! the flames shot out straight upward and had a lot of flame indicating some kind of chemical explosion ! and not pressure. hope they find answers soon . 🤔🤔
Could Trump be responsible for this? I’ve been watching NBCs cover on him and it leads me to believe this is exactly the type of thing he and his followers would do!