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Plum Borough honors first responders for actions during Rustic Ridge home explosion
Members from four fire departments were honored alongside paramedics and police officers.
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Members from four fire departments were honored alongside paramedics and police officers.
The Allegheny County Police Department has released a statement saying the individual has been identified, and investigators are in contact with him.
Tuesday's deadly blast in Crescent Township is the third instance of a home explosion in the area within the past eight months.
From multiple police officers killed in the line of duty, the East Palestine fiery train derailment, the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting trial, and a deadly house explosion in Plum Borough, it's been a year full of headlines.
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All the proceeds from the event will go to the families affected by the tragic explosion.
The house explosion that killed six people in Plum's Rustic Ridge neighborhood last month originated inside.
The Plum football team honored the victims of a tragic home explosion last month in the area's Rustic Ridge neighborhood.
A house explosion killed six people and rendered 10 homes uninhabitable in Plum earlier this month.
The agency says that the decision is based on preliminary elimination that the source of the blast was inside the home.
50% of the sales will be donated to The Rustic Ridge Family Fund.
The secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection said people in Plum deserve to know what happened.
School administrators have a plan in place to help students through this difficult time.
The Presbyterian Church of Plum Creek held the event to benefit those impacted by the explosion.
12-year-old Keegan Clontz was part of the program.
Ten homes were labeled as 'currently uninhabitable.'
The Plum community is still grieving, but people are coming together to find some comfort.
The DEP inspectors began with a stray gas investigation at the site to look for sources of combustible gas near the structure, all under the DEP's jurisdiction.
People in Plum are showing up for those impacted by Saturday morning's house explosion that took six lives.
The explosion and fire in the Rustic Ridge neighborhood killed six people and rattled the community.
DeNova Detect plans to reach out to the Plum Fire Department about getting natural gas alarms into the hands of homeowners in the impacted community.
Keegan Clontz loved playing football, and his father, Casey, loved watching him play.
Paul Oravitz died Wednesday, four days after the deadly blast in the Rustic Ridge neighborhood.
Three homes were destroyed and a dozen others were damaged in the blast.
Crews are searching the debris of the house explosion in Plum, looking for clues to what caused the blast. KDKA-TV's Meghan Schiller explains what happens next.
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