Senior Retirement Group Home Undergoes Explosion Ohio After Gas Leak after Witnesses Among Presence

Sunday November 23, 2025, 5:22 PM- In Youngstown on Saturday November 22nd, 2025, Phoenix House Apartments in Austintown located present is placed outside of young tine First Responders had to be contacted to arrive on scene for reports of eyewitness accounts residence that smelled a gas leak.

Frequent group of the Pheonix senior living senior were seriously hurt and some had died after the explosion had happened. WKBN, WKYC, WFMT reported response that they heard sounds coming from inside the building. The building shook approximately 12:30 PM local time reported from the outlets.

The explosion shook the outside exterior structure wall integrity construction like the model of an earthquake, where wall that meets the structure on the exterior were left apart visible for its items to appear.

First Responder Austintown assisted for Chief Tom O' Hara. Said one victim who survived had been quickly who survived had been quickly transported to the hospital with random injuries, other people experienced other harmless injuries.

Law enforcement has issued assigned community mobilization transport public access vehicle services to render assistance to uninjured residents for 2 possible locations 1.) Being the Austin Senior Center 2.) Austintown School District Facilities major outlets reported.

Phoenix House in Youngsten and Austintown Mahoning Country Ohio assists in senior resident apartment complex assistant living for the elderly with low-income to residents, according to WFMJ, WKBN, WKYC.

Police continue still investigating the actual cause of the explosion that led to the initial gas leak in the first place. However subsequently the investigation is advancing forward collected further information for the investigation in the search for answers knowledge for disclosure.

Mahoning County commissioners had advised visitors in the vicinity to stay clear of the building and to avoid the building perimeter in an emergency us response personnel actively continue rescue operations.

"It felt like an earthquake," resident Michael Kosach told WKBN. "I didn't know how bad it was until I got out."

"There was a big, loud blast — then boom," recounted another resident, Don Lampley.

Fellow resident Cindy Duke added, "It felt like a bomb."

Chief Tom O'Hara said the entire building structure condition of the high rise is under police investigation.

Viable outlet sources of WKBN, WKYC, WFMJ told the outlets uninjured residents could be seen standing in the parking lot covered in warm thermal blankets and close to their services animals.