{"id":100423,"date":"2026-01-30T04:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/100423\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T04:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:58:16","slug":"smoke-billows-after-metal-plant-explosion-shook-houses-in-southwest-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/100423\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoke Billows After Metal Plant Explosion &#8216;Shook Houses&#8217; in Southwest Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Plumes of smoke billowed into the night sky after an explosion at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/pennsylvania-langeloth-explosion-washington-county\/70194857\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:metal fabricating plant;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">metal fabricating plant<\/a> in southwest Pennsylvania on Thursday evening, January 29.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage captured by Larry Thomas shows emergency responders at the scene in Langeloth, as flames continued to burn from within the confines of the plant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Thomas <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PublicUniverse\/status\/2017030143454093586\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">said<\/a> the blast \u201cshook houses and was felt over 15 miles [away],\u201d but that \u201cthings seemed to be under control by 6:55 pm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Smith Township <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0i8rgrYnCegd2EY6MR6QVcaWFbR4KdELGEugrv5tL4Detw3zW4K6bWDYgLrB2Xignl&amp;id=61563269904071\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:confirmed in a statement;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">confirmed in a statement<\/a> that there was an explosion at the Langeloth Metallurgical Plant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cAfter speaking with Fire and Police, we want to reassure the community that at this time there are no reported casualties and no immediate risk to the public,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/explosion-langeloth-metallurigcal-company\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:CBS reported;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">CBS reported<\/a> that according to dispatchers, the blast, which was reported at 6:15 pm, left at least four people requiring hospital treatment. Credit: Larry Thomas via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plumes of smoke billowed into the night sky after an explosion at a metal fabricating plant in southwest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[48947,48998,48999,49000,28,30,29,48949],"class_list":["post-100423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-langeloth","tag-larry-thomas","tag-metal-fabricating","tag-metallurgical-plant","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-smith-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}