Pottstown officials say five people are dead, including four children, while two are injured, as an investigation into what caused a home to explode continues.
"It was crazy, because they were bringing bodies down the street. They looked like they were alive. We couldn’t tell. I couldn’t see the other side," Johnson related. "They said there were bodies outside the house."
A woman, claiming to be the sister of a victim, says her brother recently bought the home on Hale Street and lived there with his wife, his mother and four children."What did you think?" asked FOX 29’s Jeff Cole.Residents say the smell of natural gas in the neighborhood was constant and they complained.
Ryan Nagel says he moved out of one of the destroyed homes in 2017. "The whole time, the 10 years we lived there, we could smell gas. Every once in a while, we’d smell gas, wondering what it was. We’d call police, they’d come out and not smell anything and say it was fine."
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