{"id":239523,"date":"2026-07-09T17:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/239523\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T17:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:52:13","slug":"explosion-destroys-pennsylvania-home-leaving-2-people-hospitalized-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/239523\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosion destroys Pennsylvania home, leaving 2 people hospitalized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEARFIELD COUNTY, Pa. (WJAC) \u2014 Emergency officials in Clearfield County say<a href=\"https:\/\/wjactv.com\/news\/local\/officials-house-explosion-destroys-home-near-curwensville-injuring-two\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> two people were taken to the hospital <\/a>after a house explosion in Ferguson Township Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>According to a fire official on scene, the explosion was reported around 7:30 a.m. at a home on Pentz Lane, near Curwensville. Multiple fire departments and tanker trucks responded to the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The Mahaffey Fire Company Captain confirmed to WJAC that the incident was a house explosion. He said two people were transported to a hospital and believes they suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>A person at the scene, who identified himself as the property owner, had earlier told WJAC that two people were inside the home when the explosion occurred. Fire officials have now confirmed that two people were hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pentz Lane house explosion (WJAC)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783619533_79_877fc7d1-92bd-487a-a3c2-d1a61e0788b2-4399147bee2646a08bfbf14c95eab900.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Pentz Lane house explosion (WJAC)<\/p>\n<p>According to a WJAC reporter at the scene, firefighters continue to hose down hot spots as smoke remains visible.<\/p>\n<p>Photos show that the home was destroyed in the explosion and the garage is the only structure still standing on the property.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the explosion remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEARFIELD COUNTY, Pa. (WJAC) \u2014 Emergency officials in Clearfield County say two people were taken to the hospital&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-239523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239523","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=239523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}