Mom, 6 Kids Killed As US Home Explodes

A woman and her six children, who ranged in age from 3 to 11-years-old, were killed in a Sunday morning explosion at a home in Pennsylvania, officials said.

Sarah Stoltzfus, 34, her four sons and two daughters were identified by Pennsylvania State Police (PSP), according to WGAL 8. The family was trapped inside their Clinton County home, and firefighters could not reach them as the building was engulfed in flames, the PSP said. The four boys were 3, 5, 10, and 11-years-old, and the two girls were 6 and 8-years-old, WGAL reported.

Firefighters responded to the home following a report of an explosion and a fire. While the cause of the blaze is under investigation, a propane leak inside the home may be to blame, according to the PSP. Exterior propane tanks did not explode and were not believed to have contributed to the fire, the outlet reported.

Christina Duck, a neighbor of the Stoltzfus family, told WNEP that she was eating breakfast with her daughter around 8:30 Sunday morning when she heard a boom.

“I didn’t know what the boom was at first because it was odd that it shook the house and living next to a stone quarry. I thought they used to blast over there, and that’s what it reminded me of,” she said. (Read more from “Mom, 6 Kids Killed As US Home Explodes” HERE)

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