{"id":28228,"date":"2024-06-09T02:33:03","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T07:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=28228"},"modified":"2024-06-09T02:33:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T07:33:09","slug":"authorities-identify-77-year-old-man-killed-in-suburban-chicago-home-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=28228","title":{"rendered":"Authorities identify 77-year-old man killed in suburban Chicago home explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">LAKE ZURICH, Ill. &#8212;&nbsp;Authorities released the name of a 77-year-old man who was found dead after a house exploded in suburban Chicago on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Lake County Coroner\u2019s Office identified the man as Timothy Toczylowski on Friday evening. He was a resident of the home, authorities said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">First responders found the home leveled after the explosion about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday in Lake Zurich, according to the Lake County sheriff\u2019s office. The man\u2019s body later was recovered from the rubble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Authorities said Toczylowski was identified through dental records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Tiffany Koch&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/post\/lake-zurich-fire-department-explosion-destroys-home-overhill\/14913072\/\">told WLS-TV<\/a>&nbsp;that she heard the explosion, ran outside and saw the nearby house burning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cThere was this loud boom. I don\u2019t even know how to describe it,\u201d Koch said. \u201cIt sounded like a tree fell, but there was no real shaking except for just that quick second.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Two other homes were damaged. A utility company crew had to dig up gas lines to shut off natural gas to the property. That allowed firefighters to put out the flames, authorities said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The coroner&#8217;s office said Friday the cause of the explosion remains under investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/authorities-identify-77-year-man-killed-suburban-chicago-110953060\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAKE ZURICH, Ill. &#8212;&nbsp;Authorities released the name of a 77-year-old man who was found dead after a house exploded in suburban Chicago on Tuesday. The Lake County Coroner\u2019s Office identified the man as Timothy Toczylowski on Friday evening. He was a resident of the home, authorities said. First responders found the home leveled after the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[1544,1539,1350],"class_list":["post-28228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-authorities","tag-home","tag-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28230,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28228\/revisions\/28230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}