Fire officials confirmed Wednesday their crew was on the second floor of the vet clinic at the time of the explosion.

A hit-and-run driver crashed into a North Carolina veterinary clinic on Tuesday, causing a gas explosion that left three firefighters injured, authorities said.

Albemarle County Fire Rescue held a press conference at 12:30 p.m. on August 20 to provide new details on a house explosion the day before that killed one and left one injured.

The Winston-Salem police and fire departments were called to an explosion in a parking lot off University Parkway on Wednesday morning. According to Assistant Chief Andrew Gray, a coffee truck exploded just before 7:27 a.

Upon conclusion of the forensic origin and cause examination, the cause of the fire and subsequent explosions was determined to be a compressed natural gas (CNG) cylinder that was punctured by an adjacent control panel for a hydraulic lift, as a Sun Metro bus unintentionally fell off a hydraulic lift, the report stated.

Police in North Carolina arrested a 46-year-old man in connection to a gas explosion that occurred at a Wilmington building.

No one was injured in the explosion, which occurred aboard a bulk carrier ship near the site of the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in 2024.

Baltimore County Fire has confirmed there has been an explosion on a coal freighter near the site of the Key Bridge.