{"id":1130,"date":"2026-09-27T15:26:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T15:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2026-09-27T15:27:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T15:27:04","slug":"couple-both-aged-78-killed-in-house-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/?p=1130","title":{"rendered":"Couple, both aged 78, killed in house explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"

HAZEL GREEN, Ala. (WAFF\/Gray News) – A couple died in a house explosion in Alabama.<\/p>\n

Madison County Sheriff\u2019s Office confirmed that two people were killed in the explosion, which happened in Hazel Green.<\/p>\n

Madison County Coroner Dr. Tyler Berryhill identified the two people killed as husband and wife Jimmy Stephenson and Patricia Stephenson, both 78.<\/p>\n

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Home destroyed on Elkwood Section Rd in Hazel Green<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

The call came in around 4:45 a.m. Friday.<\/p>\n

A nearby neighbor, Kerri Cutts, sent a video to 48 News in which a loud boom can be heard toward the end<\/p>\n

Another neighbor said that they heard a loud boom that shook their home and knocked items off their walls.<\/p>\n

The cause of the explosion is still under investigation at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HAZEL GREEN, Ala. (WAFF\/Gray News) – A couple died in a house explosion in Alabama. Madison County Sheriff\u2019s Office confirmed that two people were killed in the explosion, which happened in Hazel Green. Madison County Coroner Dr. Tyler Berryhill identified the two people killed as husband and wife Jimmy Stephenson and Patricia Stephenson, both 78….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1133,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions\/1133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}