{"id":5717,"date":"2025-09-17T21:06:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T21:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=5717"},"modified":"2025-09-17T21:06:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T21:06:15","slug":"st-louis-county-explosion-injures-at-least-3-people-destruction-caught-on-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=5717","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis County explosion injures at least 3 people, destruction caught on video"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\" data-start=\"93\" data-end=\"158\">St. Louis County Explosion Destroys Homes, Injures Residents<\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"160\" data-end=\"478\">A massive explosion rocked north St. Louis County, Missouri, on Monday, August 25, leaving at least three people injured and destroying five homes, according to local officials. The blast occurred around 9:15 a.m., sending thick smoke into the sky and damaging more than 20 nearby properties, including condominiums.<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"480\" data-end=\"514\">\u201cLike a Bomb Hit That Place\u201d<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"515\" data-end=\"850\">Black Jack Fire Chief Paul Peebles confirmed that cadaver dogs searched the area but found no fatalities. He added that 90% of homes in the blast zone were red-tagged, meaning residents cannot return. St. Louis County Police Chief Col. Kenneth Gregory compared the devastation to warfare, saying, <em data-start=\"812\" data-end=\"848\">\u201cIt\u2019s like a bomb hit that place.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"852\" data-end=\"883\">Cause Under Investigation<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"884\" data-end=\"1020\">Utility company Spire stated its crews found <em data-start=\"929\" data-end=\"979\">\u201cno issues with our natural gas infrastructure.\u201d<\/em> The cause remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"1022\" data-end=\"1056\">Residents Describe the Blast<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"1057\" data-end=\"1214\">Local residents recounted the terrifying moment. Tyreke Abernathy said, <em data-start=\"1129\" data-end=\"1212\">\u201cI was just lying in bed\u2026 I saw one house crumbled and the next two caught fire.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1216\" data-end=\"1350\">Another resident, Erika Phillips, compared it to an earthquake, explaining her condo shook violently as a painting fell on her baby.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"At least 20 homes damaged in St. Louis County explosion\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QLOwA2q1518?feature=oembed\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-origwidth=\"790\" data-origheight=\"444\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis County Explosion Destroys Homes, Injures Residents A massive explosion rocked north St. Louis County, Missouri, on Monday, August 25, leaving at least three people injured and destroying five homes, according to local&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5718,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5717\/revisions\/5718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}