{"id":72668,"date":"2025-11-27T22:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T22:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/72668\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T22:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T22:50:08","slug":"explosion-destroys-home-in-oakland-maine-at-least-1-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/72668\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosion destroys home in Oakland, Maine; at least 1 injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An explosion destroyed a home in Oakland, Maine, injuring at least one person and sending debris across a residential neighborhood, according to local officials and media reports.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion was reported Thursday afternoon at a house on Lakeview Drive in Oakland, where investigators from the Fire Marshal\u2019s Office were responding, according to the department. <\/p>\n<p>Lt. Aaron Turcotte with Maine State Police said an initial report indicated one person was injured, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bangordailynews.com\/2025\/11\/27\/central-maine\/house-explodes-in-oakland\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bangor Daily News<\/a>. The person\u2019s condition and the extent of their injuries were not immediately known.<\/p>\n<p>Photos from the scene show the home reduced to debris, with flames burning amid what\u2019s left of the residence. Nearby homes and vehicles appeared to have sustained visible damage.<\/p>\n<p>\tArticle continues below the player<\/p>\n<p>A witness in Fairfield wrote on social media, \u201cWe\u2019re in Fairfield and we heard a big bang and it shook the house just a few minutes ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oakland is a town in Kennebec County in central Maine, located about 15 miles northwest of Augusta. Officials said the cause of the explosion is under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An explosion destroyed a home in Oakland, Maine, injuring at least one person and sending debris across a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[12397,15108,143,42528,145,144,435],"class_list":{"0":"post-72668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-explosion","9":"tag-maine","10":"tag-oakland","11":"tag-oakland-maine","12":"tag-oakland-headlines","13":"tag-oakland-news","14":"tag-united-states"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}