Explosion destroys Santa Maria house, damages nearby homes

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• APCD distributing more free air purifiers Thursday to Casmalia, Guadalupe residents
• GALLERY: Firefighters battle Montaña de Oro fire
• Central Coast neighborhood decimated by explosion which destroyed one home, damaged about 10 others
• Fueling the county’s wildfires: Old-growth, dried-out chaparral provides tinderbox conditions
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Meanwhile, Rudy Razo, who lives just a few houses down from the damage, says Wednesday’s explosion shook his entire home. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. “It's really too early to say exactly what happened because we don’t know. This is very much in progress right now but we are out there with fire, what could ultimately be a gas leak, but like I said, I'm not sure yet,” said Van Meel early Wednesday afternoon. Emergency crews arrive at a house explosion in Hancock Village Wednesday afternoon in Santa Maria.

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The cause was an open natural gas outlet with multiple identified sources of ignition capable of igniting the natural gas, according to van de Kamp. The explosion Wednesday afternoon, which damaged 24 residences including the one that was destroyed at 1219 Jackie Ln., was accidental, and caused by an open natural gas outlet in the kitchen, officials said Thursday. According to an Aug. 27 update from the city, the woman who was inside the home at the time is 83 years old and in critical condition with burn injuries. The adjacent neighbor was trapped in rubble and extricated, but is in stable condition. Two others were transferred to the hospital for medical care, but there is no updated information at this time. A Santa Maria house was destroyed in an apparent explosion Wednesday afternoon and several people were receiving medical treatment for injuries, according to city officials.

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All that’s left of the home where the blast occurred is the frame of its garage. The rest of the house is a massive pile of charred wood. Investigators are trying to determine what led to an explosion which destroyed a Central Coast home, and damaged around ten others. We also asked Santa Maria Fire officials for an update on those who were injured, but they said that information was not yet available.

Central Coast neighborhood decimated by explosion which destroyed one home, damaged about 10 others

The home at 1219 Jackie Lane experienced about $440,000 in structural damage and $100,000 for its contents; 1223 Jackie Lane experienced $425,000 in structural damage and $75,000 for its contents. Estimates for the remaining 22 residences impacted by the incident are still accumulating, the city said in its update. The blast on Jackie Lane in Santa Maria totally destroyed one home. A survey updated the number of surrounding homes damaged by the blast from 10, to 23. One Santa Maria home is destroyed and nearly two dozen others are damaged after a house caught fire and exploded Wednesday, Aug. 24.

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Thursday morning in Santa Maria to board up windows shattered by an explosion caused by a gas leak Wednesday afternoon. Santa Maria fire officials who were on the scene Wednesday say the explosion was “accidental in nature,” adding that it originated in the kitchen and the cause was an open natural gas outlet. Officials are still calculating damage estimates for the remaining 22 homes. The city of Santa Maria thanks everyone who contributed to the aid effort in the aftermath of the explosion.

More information will be provided as updates come into the newsroom. The cause of the explosion is still under investigation. The explosion and fire destroyed the home to the ground, as seen from the area. One of the neighbors impacted by the home explosion, 90-year-old Gloria Scozzari, has had a GoFundMe set up by her granddaughter as she looks to build back after the explosion. Shortly after 12 p.m., a 911 caller reported a possible explosion inside a home in the 1200 block of Jackie Lane. Officers arrived at the scene and found a residence engulfed in flames, according to the Santa Maira Police Department.

Cause determined: Gas leak blamed for explosion which destroyed one home, damaged 23 in Santa Maria - kclu.org

Cause determined: Gas leak blamed for explosion which destroyed one home, damaged 23 in Santa Maria.

Posted: Thu, 24 Aug 2023 07:00:00 GMT [source]

After the incident and into Wednesday evening, people were asked to avoid East Estes Drive while fire and police officials searched the area and investigated the blast. One was extricated from the home that exploded, one was extricated from an adjacent home, and two other people were in the home behind the one that exploded, he said. Fire Department crews extinguished the blaze and then police officers formed search teams to rescue residents, police Lt. Paul Van Meel said. Eight homes were red-tagged and are considered “unsafe to enter,” officials said in an update Friday. Three people were injured in the explosion according to the on-scene crew.

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Santa Maria police were asking the community to stay out of the area of E Estes Drive near Hancock and use alternative routes. The home is located in a residential neighborhood in the City of Santa Maria, which is about a three-hour drive north of Los Angeles. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. The cause of the explosion and fire was unknown and under investigation. For the latest news in Santa Barbara County — delivered right to your inbox.

Lippman said she can't speak highly enough about the police and fire personnel, and representatives from SoCal Gas who responded. Windows of residences close to a house that exploded Wednesday afternoon are boarded up Thursday morning. The home was in rubble, there were no more walls, no more ceiling. In the initial explosion, the fire was limited but the home was in rubble, all that was left was the frame,” Dandridge said. Santa Maria Fire Chief Brad Dandridge has never seen anything like the Aug. 23 house explosion before.

I don’t usually deal with explosions like this,” said Joe Cedillos, president of the Homeowners Association for Hancock Village, where the explosion took place. Jacob is your community news reporter covering the Santa Maria Valley. According to Police Lt. Paul Van Meel, it's too early to say exactly what caused the explosion. The evacuated area did not extend to Allan Hancock College, and there was no threat to the Santa Maria campus, but people reported feeling the blast blocks away. The extent of their injuries, or whether there are any fatalities as a result of the explosion, was not available Wednesday.

City spokesman Mark van de Kamp said that 23 adjacent residential structures were damaged, including the next-door residence at 1223 Jackie Lane that had heavy damage to about 75% of the building. Dozens of windows in neighboring homes that were shattered by the explosion have been boarded up.The investigation into the official cause of the blast is expected to take several days. Fire officials said the leak originated in the kitchen and was caused by an open natural gas outlet. The woman, 83, sustained burn injuries in an explosion characterized by fire officials as "accidental in nature," Jacob Dizon of KSBY reported last week. First responders assembled searched teams and entered homes, searching for and extracting residents.

Get Los Angeles's latest local news on crime, entertainment, weather, schools, COVID, cost of living and more. She was airlifted after the explosion and is now in a Colton hospital recovering with severe burns. An insurance assessor, arson investigator, and code compliance gathered at the scene of this home explosion on Adalane Court in Victorville.

Santa Barbara County is providing an excavator and a search dog. A home in Santa Maria has been leveled by what initial reports say was an explosion caused by a gas leak. Santa Barbara County sent an excavator and search dog to help with the scene. Responders extricated a woman from inside the home that was destroyed.

Residents gather on the 1200 block of Jackie Lane at Hancock Village to see damage done from a house explosion Wednesday afternoon in Santa Maria. The two fire departments are among 55 agencies, departments and community groups that will receive a total of $680,000 in grants from the Fire Foundation, the spokesman said. The hospital is not providing an update on the victim's condition. Investigators are working to determine what caused a Victorville home to explode, sending a woman to the hospital.