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  • Remaining families evacuated near Centerville home explosion could be back home by Tuesday night – WTOP News

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    The remaining families forced to evacuate due to a gas leak and home explosion in Centerville, Virginia, will be able to return to their homes soon.

    The remaining families forced to evacuate due to a gas leak and home explosion in Centerville, Virginia, will be able to return to their homes soon.

    Assistant Chief of Operations for Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Eric Craven says final testing is wrapping up at the homes of the remaining 19 families displaced.

    “We anticipate that most of these will be cleared for reoccupation within the next 24 hours. We will not move forward until the conditions support it,” Craven said.

    The explosion happened Feb. 9 on Quail Pond Court, injuring the person living in the home and their neighbor.

    Speaking at a recent news conference, Jason Weekley, senior vice president of utility operations for Washington Gas, tried to reassure residents who live in the area about their work to fix the leak.

    “We’ve conducted multiple safety surveys, multiple leak surveys, so we’re very confident in the safety of the system in this area,” Weekley said.

    Weekley described a multipoint process that’s been used by Washington Gas since the explosion to determine if it’s safe to allow people to return.

    He declined to comment about reports of smells of gas in the area, some occurring the day before the explosion.

    Weekley said the National Transportation Safety Board will issue a final report on the cause of leak, the explosion and next steps for safety in about 30 days.

    After a week of testing, Washington Gas found and repaired the source of the gas leak.

    “Investigators identified a section of polyethylene plastic pipe near the corner of Quail Pond Court and Belle Plains Drive that leaked air during pressure testing,” the NTSB said in a news release.

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  • 2 killed in Pueblo County home explosion, fire

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    PUEBLO COUNTY, Colo. — A man and a woman were killed in a home explosion and fire in rural eastern Pueblo County Thursday afternoon.

    While the exact cause remains unknown, the Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office reported Saturday that the explosion was deemed accidental.

    It happened at a home near 57th Lane and Cherry Road near Boone.

    When first responders arrived Thursday afternoon, they found the home fully engulfed in fire.

    Firefighters quickly got the fire under control and learned that two people had been at the home and were unaccounted for, according to the sheriff’s office.

    Once the fire was extinguished, responders found one of the deceased individuals. The second was located on Saturday morning.

    The Pueblo County Coroner’s Office will release the names of the deceased and the manner and cause of death at the appropriate time.

    The investigation into the cause of the explosion continues.

    Investigators from the Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control and the sheriff’s office are investigating the incident.

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  • Authorities to give update on massive home explosion that rocked Arlington late last year – WTOP News

    Authorities to give update on massive home explosion that rocked Arlington late last year – WTOP News

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    Local and federal authorities are set to provide an update on the investigation into the massive explosion that leveled an Arlington County, Virginia, duplex late last year as officers tried to serve a search warrant. 

    A home is seen exploding from a distance, Monday night, Dec. 4, 2023, in Arlington, Va. Arlington County Police in a Virginia suburb of the nations capital are investigating an explosion at a residence where officers were trying to serve a search warrant Monday. The Arlington County Police Department said in a statement that the suspect fired several shots inside the home and that an explosion happened. Arlington is located across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C.
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    The charred remains of an Arlington, Virginia, home the day after it exploded.
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    Officials are still investigating the explosion.
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    FILE – Fire and police officials walk around the scene of a house explosion as an Arlington County Fire Department ladder truck sprays water down on the remains of the building on Monday, Dec. 4, 2023, in Arlington, Va. On Friday, Dec. 8, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly claiming an explosion at the home in Arlington, Monday night was caused by a firefight with U.S. federal agents that either ignited a gas pipeline or led a terrorist to set off a suicide vest.
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    Fire and police officials walk around the scene of a house explosion as an Arlington County Fire Department ladder truck sprays water down on the remains of the building on Monday, Dec. 4, 2023, in Arlington, Va.
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    Local and federal authorities are set to provide an update on the investigation into the massive explosion that leveled an Arlington County, Virginia, duplex late last year as officers tried to serve a search warrant.

    The home’s owner, James Yoo, 56, was presumed killed in the Dec. 4 explosion.

    Shortly before the blast, officers were attempting to enter the home to serve a search warrant after reports that Yoo was firing a flare gun from inside his home into the surrounding Bluemont neighborhood.

    Police worked to evacuate surrounding homes, but when officers tried to come inside the home,  it appeared Yoo shot multiple times at officers from a suspected firearm, authorities said. The explosion occurred just before 8:30 p.m., sending a large fireball into the sky and showering the surrounding area with debris.

    Videos shared on social media captured the scene.

    No officers or neighbors were hurt in the explosion, which shattered some windows and damaged a total of 10 other houses.

    Authorities later said Yoo had posted paranoid rants about his neighbors and a former co-worker on LinkedIn and called an FBI tip line multiple times.

    Between 2018 and 2022, Yoo also filed four lawsuits in federal court — all were dismissed. In a 2018 lawsuit in New York against his then-wife, younger sister and a hospital where Yoo said he was committed against his will, the judge ruled the suit was frivolous, and “the product of delusion or fantasy.”

    WTOP staff and the Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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