A huge blast And the fire that killed two people and leveled a New Jersey house on Sunday was “not accidental”, according to the authorities.
The explosion occurred early Sunday in the community of the county of Gloucester, in the canton of Washington, and the neighbors declared that it looked like a bomb that goes out.
The Washington Canton Police Service said on Monday morning in a statement that the explosion had caused an “current criminal investigation” and quoted the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s office that the incident was “not accidental”.
Police and New Jersey fire officials investigate what caused a massive explosion on May 11, 2025, which leveled this house in the canton of Washington, in Gloucester County, New Jersey.
Police Department of the Canton of Washington
The bodies of a man and a woman, whose names have not been released, were recovered from the rubble of the house. The Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office told ABC Philadelphia Station WPVI that deaths were “suspect”, but refused to develop.
The explosion took place at 2 h 02 and caused several calls to 911 neighbors reporting a strong explosion and fire in the area of the court of tranquility and Orion Way, according to a press release published by the police of the canton of Washington.
“The agents who responded arrived at the 13 Tribunal of Tranquility and observed that the residence was fully engulfed in the flames and seemed to have been strongly damaged by an apparent explosion,” said the police statement.
Firefighters from the Washington Canton Fire Service arrived shortly after the police and extinguished the fire, according to the press release.
Police and New Jersey fire officials investigate what caused a massive explosion on May 11, 2025, which leveled this house in the canton of Washington, in Gloucester County, New Jersey.
Police Department of the Canton of Washington
The cause of the explosion remains under investigation by the police service, fire investigators in the canton of Washington, the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office and the New Jersey Fire Marshal Office.
“It was a real boom. I said,” Something is not going well, “said Jimmy Gibson, who lives near the house that exploded, Wpvi said. “The whole house was in flames … as soon as the explosion occurred.”
The video taken by WPVI has shown damage to at least one house near the destroyed house. The images also showed a car that had apparently been damaged in the explosion.
The neighbors who live in houses in the explosion have said they were awake.
“It was huge, huge; it seemed to be struggling,” neighbor Suzanne Pinto told WPVI.
The neighbor Jill Rauf told WPVI that she, her husband and her dog have evacuated their house when hear the explosion.
“I have never seen anything like this before,” said Rauf, adding that the house that exploded was engulfed in flames.
