{"id":170511,"date":"2026-04-20T03:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T03:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/170511\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T03:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T03:55:08","slug":"one-woman-six-children-killed-in-clinton-county-house-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/170511\/","title":{"rendered":"One woman, six children killed in Clinton County house explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPennsylvania State Police say one woman and six children died in a house explosion early Sunday morning in Clinton County. Police identified the victims as 34-year-old Sarah Stolzfus, an 11-year-old boy, a 10-year-old boy, an 8-year-old girl, a 6-year-old girl, a 5-year-old boy, and a 3-year-old boy. Emergency crews said they were dispatched around 8:30 a.m. Sunday morning to the home on Long Run Road in Lamar Township. They say when they got there, the home was already fully engulfed in flames. State police said the victims were trapped inside the home. According to investigators, the explosion was caused by a propane leak in the home. The Pennsylvania State Police Fire and Explosion Investigation Unit in Montoursville is now investigating.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\tCLINTON COUNTY, Pa. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Pennsylvania State Police say one woman and six children died in a house explosion early Sunday morning in Clinton County. <\/p>\n

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Police identified the victims as 34-year-old Sarah Stolzfus, an 11-year-old boy, a 10-year-old boy, an 8-year-old girl, a 6-year-old girl, a 5-year-old boy, and a 3-year-old boy. <\/p>\n

Emergency crews said they were dispatched around 8:30 a.m. Sunday morning to the home on Long Run Road in Lamar Township. <\/p>\n

They say when they got there, the home was already fully engulfed in flames. <\/p>\n

State police said the victims were trapped inside the home. <\/p>\n

According to investigators, the explosion was caused by a propane leak in the home. <\/p>\n

The Pennsylvania State Police Fire and Explosion Investigation Unit in Montoursville is now investigating. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania State Police say one woman and six children died in a house explosion early Sunday morning in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[76627,76624,76628,76626,24705,5855,37241,76623,65043,11579,86,76629,76625,28,30,29,1224,15123,890,2184],"class_list":{"0":"post-170511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-3-year-old-boy","9":"tag-34-year-old-sarah-stolzfus","10":"tag-6-year-old-girl","11":"tag-8-year-old-girl","12":"tag-boy","13":"tag-child","14":"tag-clinton-county","15":"tag-clinton-county-house-explosion","16":"tag-deadly-explosion","17":"tag-emergency-crew","18":"tag-home","19":"tag-lamar-township","20":"tag-long-run-road","21":"tag-pennsylvania","22":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","23":"tag-pennsylvania-news","24":"tag-pennsylvania-state-police","25":"tag-sunday-morning","26":"tag-victim","27":"tag-woman"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170511","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=170511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}