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The number of people who died as a result of a house explosion in Pottstown, Pennsylvania grew to five Friday afternoon, authorities said.

Authorities believe a gas leak led to an explosion Friday morning that killed at least 43 people at an under-renovation hotel in Havana, Cuba.

At least 10 people were taken to hospitals, some critically injured, after an explosion and a fire erupted at apartments in Silver Spring, Maryland, Thursday morning, consuming homes in a fireball and collapsing a building, officials said.

A man was killed Friday morning in an explosion at his home in Franklin, New Hampshire. The office of New Hampshire Fire Marshal Sean Toomey said the blast happened on New Hampton Road. Authorities responded just before 11:30 a.m. to find a male dead inside. The victim was identified Saturday as 44-year-old Nathaniel Krauz. An autopsy conducted Saturday determined his…

On Saturday, the first day of 2022, a new law goes into effect in Maine that lawmakers hope will protect people from tragedy and destruction. The state will require fuel gas detectors in certain buildings more than two years on from a deadly explosion in Farmington, Maine, that claimed the life of a firefighter, injured more than six other people…

A Russian court has ordered five people to remain in pre-trial detention for two months pending an investigation into a devastating blast in a coal mine in Siberia that resulted in dozens of deaths.

A woman who survived an explosion that made international headlines is now issuing an impassioned plea to people everywhere to donate blood — a gift she said saved her life. “All that I could do was desperately fight to stay alive,” Stefanie Schaffer said of the moments following an explosion that nearly killed her. Schaffer is the Vermont dancer who…

Emergency crews are at the scene of a reported explosion and fire with injuries in Spencer, Massachusetts, on Friday morning. Spencer fire officials said the scene is located on Wire Village Road. No further information was immediately available. Spencer is located in central Massachusetts, just west of Worcester.

An explosion rocked an apartment building in suburban Atlanta, causing the three-story complex to partially collapse and leaving four people with minor injuries.

A fiery explosion that killed a man in Maynard, Massachusetts, last week was caused by an underground gas line that leaked and ignited in a crawlspace in the basement, officials said Tuesday. The officials, Maynard fire Chief Anthony Stowers and State Fire Marshal Peter Ostroskey, also noted the importance of quickly reporting gas leaks. The explosion and subsequent fire on…

A man died and three emergency responders were injured in a reported explosion at a house in Maynard, Massachusetts, Thursday evening.

A fatal oxygen bottle explosion in Massachusetts was apparently caused when the victim started hitting the bottle against the ground, investigators said. The man was killed in Springfield late Tuesday morning, according to a statement Wednesday from the state fire marshal’s office. The victim had been trying to remove the home oxygen bottle’s valve, but when that failed, he...

A house exploded in Amherst, New Hampshire leaving one person injured on Friday.

One person was hurt in a house explosion on Clark Avenue in Amherst, New Hampshire Friday near Baboosic Lake.

Afghan authorities say a bomb exploded near a girls’ school in a majority Shiite district of west Kabul on Saturday, killing at least 30 people, many of them young pupils between 11 and 15 years old

Neighborhoods in several New Hampshire towns were rocked by an explosion that turned out to be a gender reveal.

A massive fireworks explosion that left two people dead in Southern California earlier this week caused at least $3.2 million worth of damage

Firefighters were able to free a horse surrounded by flames and smoke after an explosion rocked an entire neighborhood in Ontario, Calif., on Tuesday.

The man believed to be responsible for the Christmas Day bombing that tore through downtown Nashville blew himself up in the explosion, and appears to have acted alone, federal officials said Sunday.