A fireworks explosion badly injured a man and a woman in a Darnestown, Maryland, home on Tuesday, making the house uninhabitable, Montgomery County officials.
Montgomery County fire chief Scott Goldstein told the Montgomery County Council on Tuesday that it’s unlikely his department will be able to pin down the cause.
The pilot Patrick Merkle, 65, of Washington, D.C., and the passenger Jan Williams, 66, of Louisiana, both suffered serious injuries and hypothermia but were rescued before things got worse.