{"id":398683,"date":"2025-11-23T07:50:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T07:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/398683\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T07:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T07:50:12","slug":"ohio-apartment-explosion-injures-several-people-at-phoeniz-house-in-austintown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/398683\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio apartment explosion injures several people at Phoeniz House in Austintown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several people were injured in a large explosion Saturday at a senior living apartment complex in\u00a0Austintown, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion, which took out a large portion of the Phoenix House apartment building, happened just before 1 p.m., <a href=\"https:\/\/fox8.com\/news\/multiple-departments-responding-to-building-explosion-in-austintown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fox 8 reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Austintown Fire Department\u00a0Assistant Chief Tom O\u2019Hara told the outlet several people were injured, though no fatalities were immediately confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Resident Cindy Duke told FOX 8\u00a0the explosion\u00a0\u201cfelt like a bomb.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another resident, Don Lampley, who has no legs, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ioU7ZSYMheM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the outlet <\/a>he was watching the Ohio State game with a friend when \u201cthere was a\u00a0big, loud blast, then BOOM!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the explosion has not yet been released.<\/p>\n<p>The aftermath of an explosion that ripped a large hole into the side of a building in Austintown, Ohio, on Nov. 22, 2025. 19 News\/YouTube<\/p>\n<p>The explosion took out a large portion of the Phoenix House apartment building. 19 News\/YouTube<\/p>\n<p>Debris blocks the road in front of firetrucks outside the apartment building after the explosion. 19 News\/YouTube<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Austintown Township Police Department\u00a0and Mahoning County Sheriff\u2019s Office did not immediately respond to inquiries from Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Austintown Fire Department declined inquiries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several people were injured in a large explosion Saturday at a senior living apartment complex in\u00a0Austintown, Ohio. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":398684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,11096,21976,15582,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,1573,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-398683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-apartments","10":"tag-buildings","11":"tag-explosions","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-ohio","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-us-news","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}