Daily News | The Pottstown family that lost 5 members in a house explosion relocated from Philly for a better life
on Thursday had moved from Northeast Philadelphia last year to the Montgomery County borough to seek a quieter place to live outside the city.
A man who identified himself as Michael Matuzsan, the father of Kristina Matuzsan, visited the site on Saturday, sobbing as he gazed at the wreckage and wove his fingers through a temporary chain-link fence erected around the ruins. Pieces of a family’s life — a hairbrush, a sneaker, a full bottle of hand lotion — lay amid splintered timber and twisted metal.
The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Pennsylvania State Police Fire Marshal’s Office, the Pottstown Fire Department, the Pottstown Police Department, and the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission are investigating the cause of the blast. Pottstown police said there would be no updates “until investigators are ready to release details regarding the cause of the explosion,” probably in the coming days.
What’s unclear is how such a large amount of gas to level a structure could accumulate in a house without raising alarms among the occupants. Though there is a gas main in the street, neither side of the twin house had natural gas service, Bergman said. Neighbors on Saturday were still processing the trauma, the loss of life, and the physical damage to surrounding homes and vehicles by the massive concussive force from the blast.
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