After a newly bought Bothell house exploded, experts urge caution

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A large explosion in a Bothell neighborhood this week shocked onlookers not just because it sent a house up in flames and blew out neighboring windows but because the property’s owners had just spent their first night in the house.

No one was hurt in the explosion, likely related to a gas leak, that blew through the cream-colored four-bedroom home in the 19700 block of 25th Drive Southeast in Bothell Wednesday morning around 9 a.m., according to Snohomish County fire officials. But the Thrasher’s Corner house was heavily damaged.

The owners had closed on their purchase of the house just two days earlier, according to property records and online listings. The married couple and their two children stayed at the house for the first time the night before but left around 7 a.m., according to their real estate agent Ravinder Aluri with Skyline Properties in Bellevue.

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