Firefighters Fought the Longworth's House With an Axe, but the Blaze Was Too Much for the Family to Escape.

Deon Longworth and his wife Jennifer were killed in the blast. Monterati Shirley, her partner Mark Leonard and their 12-year-old daughter also died. A gas leak was isolated to a fireplace that was originally situated in the family's living room. The house had been completely leveled with nothing but a pile of ash and debris remaining. Experts calculated it would have taken nine hours for the house to fill with the amount of gas required to cause an explosion of that magnitude. Found within the rubble was the household's microwave, a general electric space maker XL model. Remarkably, investigators found the appliances instruction manual and learned that it was fitted with a timer enabling it to be programmed