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RELATED COVERAGE: 'It looked like an apocalypse': Neighbors react to deadly house explosion in Pottstown | 'It's really sad': Investigation into Pottstown house explosion continues as victims identifiedThe homes were originally damaged in May of 2022 when a home across the street exploded in the area of Hale Street and Butler Avenue, leaving five people, including four children, dead. The victims were later identified as Francine White, 67, Alana Wood, 13, Jeremiah White, 12, Nehemiah White, 10, and 8-year-old Tristan White. Jeremiah White, 12, Nehemiah White, 10, were both killed in the explosion along with three others.

POTTSTOWN, Pa. - Residents in a Pennsylvania community where a deadly house explosion killed five people, including four children, are demanding answers from investigators who have remained silent for months.The late-May explosion completely leveled a family home on Hale Street and Butler Avenues, and claimed the lives of a 67-year-old grandmother and four children ages 8-13-years-old. The victims were later identified as Francine White, 67, Alana Wood, 13, Jeremiah White, 12, Nehemiah White, 10, and 8-year-old Tristan White. Neighboring homes were damaged in the massive blast that reduced the property to nothing but a large pile of debris. The Red Cross said 11 families were displaced, a total of 34 people all together. RELATED HEADLINES:Rumors swirled about the possible cause of the explosion, including from the former homeowner who said he reported smelling natural gas during his 10 years of occupancy. "The whole time, the 10-years we lived there, we could smell gas," said Ryan Nagel who lived in the home in 2017.

POTTSTOWN, Pa. - As investigators continue to search for what caused a home explosion last week in Pottstown, family members of those killed are struggling to find closure. Cathy McKee - whose son's Jeremiah, 12, and Nehemiah, 10, died in the blast - told FOX 29's Eddie Kadhim that every day has been harder than the last. "People tell me it will get easier every day I wake up, and it gets harder," McKee said. "My children are not going to grow up, they are not going to a prom, to have children, they are never going to have that chance."Emergency crews were called to the area of Hale Street and Butler Avenue around 8 p.m. last Thursday for reports of an explosion.

POTTSTOWN, Pa. - Pottstown is united in grief, but also in resolve, supporting the family of the four children and one adult killed in a horrifying house explosion at Hale Street and Butler Avenue May 26th.Neighbors and people from all across town gathered at Pottstown High School to share memories and to pray, while lightning candles for 12-year-old Jeremiah White, 10-year-old Nehemiah White, 13-year-old Alana Wood and eight-year-old Tristan White. 67-year-old Francine White also died.Their neighbor, Kenny Cotton, says everything is still raw.

POTTSTOWN, Pa. - There are new details in the deadly Pottstown explosion. Five people are dead, while two are injured, in the Montgomery County community.From the air, the site of the explosion looks like a war zone, with rubble twisted and strewn for yards.Tanya Johnson lives a few doors away. "I hear a big bang, which I thought was thunder and I heard another bang and all the glasses in the house started to shake," she said.That was just after 8 Thursday night, when emergency crews arrived at the corner of Hale Street and Butler Avenue.