Neighbors said the explosion was so large that car alarms in the area started going off.
The death toll has risen to four after an explosion in New Jersey on Thursday reduced a home to rubble.The death toll has risen to four after an explosion in New Jersey on Thursday reduced a home to rubble.Search operations were wrapping up as of approximately 5 p.m.
Authorities say a 2-year-old boy, a 3-year-old girl, and two men ages 52 and 73 were also in the house.Action News spoke with a neighbor who says she is heartbroken after hearing two of the children she helped raise died in the explosion. "They were just so innocent and so precious. I don't get it," she said. "There's no reason she should have had to say goodbye to two of her babies yesterday while she was at work, trying to provide for them.""She would have died for those babies. If it could have been her, it definitely would have been her and not the babies," said the neighbor.
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