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The fire was under control around 10.30pm, but Arlington county fire department crews continued to battle small spot fires, police said early on Tuesday. Three officers reported minor injuries, but no one was taken to the hospital. Three officers reported minor injuries, but none was transported to the hospital.
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"Over the years he lived there, I might have seen him three or four times, and [he] always had a backpack," she said. He put foil over the windows, blocked everything and never came out of the house," she told NBC News, estimating the man had lived there for at least five years. "Because his house is usually very neat and clean, always perfectly mowed, and not even a leaf on the ground in fall, and suddenly there was trash everywhere, clothes, things on his roof," Johnston said. "And it was just very unusual. And before we even got the chance to make a welfare check call, there were flares going up and the police were already there." The cause of the explosion is still unknown and under investigation.
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Early Tuesday, the police had not identified the man inside the home or what his condition was. The police said on social media that residents should avoid the area, part of a densely populated suburban neighborhood with parks, restaurants and schools. With his cellphone's camera, Wilson captured video of the inferno, which has been replayed countless times on local news stations. He said he heard police announce they were going to try to ram the front door, so he went on his roof to start recording.
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The blast occurred as police investigated someone shooting flares into a residential area near Ballston. "I would characterize these communications as primarily complaints about alleged frauds he believed were perpetrated against him," Sundberg told reporters. "The information contained therein and the nature of those communications did not lead to opening any FBI investigations." Assistant Fire Chief Jason Jenkins noted that the fire department turned off the gas line to the house before the explosion occurred.
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Carla Rodriguez of South Arlington said she could hear the explosion more than 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) away and came to the scene but police kept onlookers blocks away. Ten other homes were affected by the explosion, Department of Public Safety Communications and Emergency Management Director Aaron Miller said Tuesday. The residents of those homes are being provided with housing, if needed, and other basic needs such as toiletries, Miller said. The suspect was inside the house at the time of the explosion, Savage said.
They also did not immediately release what specific accusation led them to the man’s house in the first place. Whether any deaths resulted from the explosion has also not been announced. "I was in the back of my house, and I had been hearing prior to this some sort of firecracker sorts of sounds, and then suddenly there's a loud boom, and my entire house is shaking," neighbor Ann-Elise Quinn said. “Come to the front door with your hands up,” someone can be heard saying in the video. Police and fire officials could not immediately say what caused the explosion.
Upon their arrival, crews found the home engulfed in flames and requested a 2nd-alarm alert to be sent out. One person is in grave condition after being pulled from a house fire in Arlington Heights. Investigators could be seen carrying buckets from near where the house once stood to an area across the street where a truck offloaded a large metal container.
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The house was in the 800 block of North Burlington Street in Arlington, Virginia, police said. The city is across the Potomac River from the US capital, Washington, DC. About 10 households were impacted by the incident, authorities said.
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The Arlington Fire Department said crews responded to reports of an explosion and fire in the Viridian neighborhood in northern Arlington. Shocking video of the explosion posted online by Alex Wilson captured the blast and the fireball that engulfed the scene. The explosion tore into the sky, and the home crumpled to the ground. Officers were called to the Bluemont neighborhood Monday afternoon after investigators say James Yoo, 56, fired a "flare-type gun" from inside a home there and into the neighborhood more than 30 times. Video showed law enforcement at the home before the explosion, with an officer ordered the suspect to come out with his hands up.
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Fire officials say home explosions are not uncommon in the county, and if you smell gas, report it immediately. Officials say they have heard from several neighbors that there was a foul smell in the area Saturday. A neighbor said he smelled natural gas earlier Saturday night and called it into the gas company. "There's people that burn a fire and little fire pits, maybe something caught on fire, but not an entire house," said neighbor Logan Lambert.
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Human remains have been found, and the medical examiner's office is currently working on identification, Penn said. The FBI in Washington was assisting in the investigation, a spokesperson for the agency's field office there said. The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives also said it had fire investigators at the scene ready to assist. While the cause of the explosion is still under investigation, the blast appears to have permanently shaken some neighbors. "The suspect was inside the residence at the time of the explosion, and he is presumed, at this point, to be deceased. Human remains have been located at the scene." The officers escaped serious injury but it was unclear what happened to the suspect who was inside when the building was leveled, an Arlington county police spokesperson, Ashley Savage, said.
Kathleen Boyce, who lives just around the block, said she was watching the house through a gap in her neighbor's yard after hearing sirens all night. Chris White, a tech executive living in California, told NPR that he rented the house that exploded from Yoo and his wife from 2015 to 2016. The police chief stressed that the events are an isolated incident and said there is no ongoing threat to the community.
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