{"id":660617,"date":"2026-05-10T17:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T17:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/660617\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T17:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T17:46:11","slug":"breaking-explosion-under-investigation-in-washington-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/660617\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Explosion under investigation in Washington neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Ill. \u2013 Authorities are investigating after an explosion was reported early Sunday morning on the 900 block of Mallard Way in Washington during police activity in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Washington Police Chief Jeff Stevens told WMBD Radio there have been no reported fatalities at this time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fire crews remained on scene for several hours following the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Few details have been officially released about what led up to the explosion or the police response.<\/p>\n<p>Stevens also said Illinois State Police is assisting with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Stevens described the investigation as ongoing and said it could continue for an extended period of time.<\/p>\n<p>Additional information is expected to be released as the investigation continues.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON, Ill. \u2013 Authorities are investigating after an explosion was reported early Sunday morning on the 900 block&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-660617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}