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As police and fire investigators work to piece together what caused a home in San Francisco's Sunset District to explode as heard on a neighbor's ring video, neighbors relive the moment. KPIX reporter Jocelyn Moran was able to confirm that windows in houses and windshields of cars on the block were shattered by the reported explosion. One person was killed and two others injured after an explosion and three-alarm fire in San Francisco's Sunset District prompted an evacuation and shelter-in-place orders Thursday, fire officials said.
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BALTIMORE -- Baltimore Gas and Electric said a gas leak does not appear to have caused the explosion of a home Saturday night in Essex. SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- For the first time, we're hearing from the woman who escaped the fiery home explosion in San Francisco's Outer Sunset last week. ABC7 News anchor Dion Lim sat down with her exclusively to hear her harrowing account of what happened that fateful morning when her life was turned upside down. San Francisco Supervisor Joel Engardio plans to hold a town hall meeting on Wednesday night at 5 p.m. Both homes next door to the explosion were red-tagged by fire investigators on Thursday night.
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New surveillance video obtained by NBC Bay Area Sunday shows the moment a San Francisco home exploded, killing one person and seriously injuring another person Thursday morning. Fire Chief Jeanine Nicholson called the explosion "really, really powerful" as it destroyed the home and two neighboring houses. "I thought it was a bomb, I thought a bomb had gone off," Nguyen said. Neighbor Liz Nguyen knows the people who live in the home where the explosion happened. She was sitting in her car about to take her daughter to school. SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- One person is dead and five families have been displaced from their homes, after an explosion and 3-alarm fire in San Francisco's Outer Sunset neighborhood on Thursday.
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A person died and two others, including a firefighter, were injured when a home in the 1700 block of 22nd Avenue exploded and caught fire Thursday morning. The explosion shattered nearby windows and the fire severely damaged the two neighboring homes on each side. In response to the incident, San Francisco police arrested 53-year-old Darron Price on charges of manslaughter and manufacturing drugs in the home, as well as two counts of child endangerment. Two children who lived at the home were in school at the time.
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Police said as investigators sifted through the rubble, they discovered evidence of a possible narcotics manufacturing facility. It was determined that an active illegal narcotics manufacturing lab was in the home, police said in a press statement. Price was booked into San Francisco County Jail on charges of involuntary manslaughter, manufacturing narcotics and two counts of child endangerment. SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — The San Francisco Police Department arrested a suspect after a home exploded in the Sunset District Thursday, leaving one person dead. Darron Price, 53, of San Francisco was arrested for manslaughter, manufacturing drugs and two counts of child endangerment. Investigators have not provided a cause for the explosion which leveled the home along 22nd Avenue and Noriega Street and rendered nearby houses uninhabitable.
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Police say a narcotics lab was being operated inside the home. "You hear the roaring of the engine going by superfast, super cars, they sound like jet engines," said Jimmy Wood, who lives in the area. Although speed has not been determined to be a factor of the crash, residents of the area say it is common for cars to zoom through the area. "From what we see behind us someone died inside of a burning car - and the driver was picked up by people following him," said Sgt. Bruce Borihanh, an LAPD public information officer.
"There was a woman as soon as the explosion happened, I could hear this person screaming. I couldn't see her," the neighbor said. SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- New video shows the moment a San Francisco home exploded on Thursday that killed one person. HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- One person is dead and two passengers hospitalized after a Tesla X went off road and burst into flames Monday morning.
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She also says it destroyed the house to the left of it and damaged the house to the right as well. A San Francisco firefighter was also taken to the hospital with minor injuries but that person is back home Thursday night. Officials say they have heard from several neighbors that there was a foul smell in the area Saturday. BGE told WJZ Monday that crews did not detect gas readings when they canvassed the area. A neighbor, named Michael, said he smelled natural gas earlier Saturday night and called the gas utility company. The loneliness of being by herself in this hospital room for Lisa, who requested we call her by her nickname, isn't all that different from how she feels in America right now.
The mother of three young children is tragically killed and her caregiver is left battling for her life. ABC7 News spoke to one man who lived across the street from the explosion and was hit in the face by flying shards of glass. Earlier in the day, officials said there was a person still unaccounted for that lived at the residence but later Thursday SFFD confirmed that a body was found in the rubble of the partly collapsed home.
As for 53-year old Darron Price, police arrested him late Friday and he now faces charges of involuntary manslaughter, manufacturing drugs, and child endangerment. During the inspection of the home, investigators discovered evidence of a possible narcotics manufacturing facility. It was later determined by investigators that an active illegal narcotics manufacturing lab was in the home at the time of the explosion.
Rita Price's caretaker, who was badly burned, remains in the hospital. Nang, her husband, and daughter lost their entire home and all their belongings. Her friend was one of five families on 22nd Avenue told not return overnight.
During his first court appearance on Wednesday, prosecutors say butane vapors from the drug lab Price operated in his home may have interacted with a dryer and that caused the explosion. It has been exactly a week since a devastating explosion and fire destroyed the home that suspect Price lived in. Investigators tell us at least three homes caught fire and at least nine more were damaged by the blast. Meanwhile, as daylight broke the morning after the blast, about a dozen investigators came to collect what appeared to be large canisters from inside or near the home where it all happened as possible evidence.
Supervisor Joel Engardio and city officials will hold a town hall Thursday night for the families affected by the house explosion and fire to help connect them with resources. He was booked for involuntary manslaughter, child endangerment and manufacturing drugs. "It's San Francisco, it's a city, and you don't really get to know the people around you, it's not like you live in the big apartment building where you might get to know your neighbors," she said. The next-door neighbor on the other side of the destroyed home said she was home at the time and firefighters helped her escape after the explosion rocked her house.
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