4th Edmonton house blast victim found
Last Updated: Monday, June 21, 2010 | 4:12 PM MT Comments80Recommend153
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Workers clean up after an explosion destroyed two homes in northeast Edmonton on Sunday. Three men and a woman were killed. (Ian Jackson/Canadian Press) Homicide detectives have taken over the investigation into a massive explosion that killed four people and destroyed two houses in north Edmonton Sunday."The deaths are being treated as suspicious," acting police chief Darryl da Costa told reporters Monday. The blast was not caused by an explosive device or a drug lab, he said, adding the investigation is still ongoing.
The body of a fourth victim — a woman — was found in the debris Monday, a day after Edmonton Fire Rescue confirmed three men had died in the blast.
"It may take days or weeks to pinpoint the cause," da Costa said.
The four victims died when a home at 91st St. and 180A Ave. exploded at about 1:20 p.m. MT.
The house was owned by Dwayne Poirier.
Friends have identified Brad Winter, 26, and Craig Huber, 30, as two of the victims. The two men lived next door to the house that exploded. A woman and three-year-old boy escaped from the same house.
Autopsies are scheduled to take place on Tuesday.
About 40 people forced to leave homes
About 28 homes were damaged by the blast, forcing about 40 people to leave their homes, an emergency official said.
Acting police chief Daryl da Costa speaks to reporters in Edmonton on Monday. (CBC) The explosion shattered windows in nearby homes, and pieces of wood, broken glass and tree branches littered the streets.Mathieu Comeault, 18, was across the street in his house when the explosion happened. Comeault told CBC News he heard a big bang and ran out into the street to see what had happened.
"I saw my neighbours and they said that a house had exploded," Comeault said. "I ran inside and grabbed my shoes and got there as fast as I could."
Several people had gathered at the scene to try to help people, said Comeault, who helped pull a woman and her son out of one of the homes.
"There was a bunch of us out there, and we kind of just handed them down the line and got them out to the street as fast as we could," he said. "There was a lot of people who helped."
Firefighters set up a hazardous materials portable shower for workers leaving the scene of the fatal explosion. (Ian Jackson/Canadian Press) Phil Stagg heard the blast from several blocks away."I got there and there was an old lady coming out of the house next door, and she was all cut up with glass," Stagg said. "The house was basically gone.
"You could see right into the basement, just a pile of rubble, half the house next door was gone."
It was not clear when residents whose homes were evacuated would be allowed to return. District Fire Chief Robert D'Aoust said most evacuees were staying with friends and family.
Officials said Sunday that rescue crews were sorting through the destruction and had blocked off streets leading to the area.
Hazardous materials crews swept the area and no unnatural chemicals were detected. Officials set up a decontamination site on scene where crew members were rinsed off as they left.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2010/06/21/edmonton-explosion-fire.html#ixzz0rWytNo7V
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