76-year-old Albemarle woman dead after devastating house explosion

ALBEMARLE COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — A 76-year-old woman is dead and a man is still hospitalized after a gas explosion leveled a home in Albemarle County.

At about 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 19, crews with Albemarle County Fire Rescue were called to the 2300 block of Ferndown Lane in the Keswick area after receiving multiple calls about a possible explosion.

When they arrived, crews found the remains of a home that had been “completely leveled to the ground” by what fire officials believe to be a gas explosion…

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