A Virginia firefighter is dead, and eleven others are injured after a home explosion obliterated a residence on Friday evening. In a press conference, Loudon County Fire & Rescue Assistant Chief of Operations James Williams said that one firefighter is dead, nine firefighters, and two civilians are injured after the explosion "totally devastated" a home in northern Virginia. Authorities said that at the time of the deadly explosion, firefighters were inside the home. The Sterling Volunteer Fire Company posted on X that crews responded to reports of a gas leak...

STERLING, Va. (AP) — An explosion possibly caused by a gas leak leveled a home in Sterling, Virginia, Friday night, killing a firefighter and injuring 11 other people, authorities said. Firefighters were called to the home on Silver Ridge Drive by a report of a gas smell shortly after 7:30 p.m. and a fiery explosion took place about 30 minutes later, fire officials said. The blast and fire occurred while firefighters were inside the building, James Williams, assistant chief of operations for Loudon County Fire and Rescue, said at a...

STERLING, Va. (AP) — An explosion possibly caused by a gas leak leveled a home in Sterling, Virginia, Friday night, killing a firefighter and injuring 11 other people, authorities said. Firefighters were called to the home on Silver Ridge Drive by a report of a gas smell shortly after 7:30 p.m. and a fiery explosion took place about 30 minutes later, fire officials said. The blast and fire occurred while firefighters were inside the building, James Williams, assistant chief of operations for Loudon County Fire and Rescue, said at a...

STERLING, Va. (AP) — One firefighter was killed and nine others were injured when an explosion in a Washington, D.C., suburb on Friday leveled a home where they were investigating a gas leak. Two civilians were also injured. The firefighters were called to the home in Sterling, Virginia, by a report of a gas smell shortly after 7:30 p.m. and a fiery explosion took place about 30 minutes later, fire officials said. The blast and fire occurred while firefighters were inside the building, James Williams, assistant chief of operations for...

STERLING, Va. (AP) — An explosion possibly caused by a gas leak leveled a home in Sterling, Virginia, Friday night, killing a firefighter and injuring 11 other people, authorities said. Firefighters were called to the home on Silver Ridge Drive by a report of a gas smell shortly after 7:30 p.m. and a fiery explosion took place about 30 minutes later, fire officials said. The blast and fire occurred while firefighters were inside the building, James Williams, assistant chief of operations for Loudon County Fire and Rescue, said at a...

One firefighter was killed — and at least nine other firefighters and two civilians injured — in a large home explosion in Northern Virginia's Loudoun County Friday night, officials said. In a news briefing late Friday night, Loudoun County Fire and Rescue Assistant Chief of Operations James Williams said that fire crews were first called to the home in the community of Sterling at about 7:40 p.m. local time. Soon after firefighters arrived, an explosion occurred, Williams said. One firefighter was killed in the explosion, Williams disclosed. The victim was...

STERLING, Va. (WLS) -- A house explosion in Sterling, Virginia killed 1 firefighter and injured 11 more people, a mix of firefighters and civilians, Friday evening, Loudon County fire officials said. Loudon Fire and Rescue Assistant Chief of Operations James Williams said that firefighters responded to a home on Silver Ridge Place in Sterling on Friday evening. After their arrival, while they were conducting an investigation, the house exploded with firefighters inside. One of those firefighters was killed, and nine more were injured, Williams said. Some of the firefighters sustained...