OMAHA, NE – A home inspector has died after the home she was inspecting blew up only two days after the previous tenants were let in the house to get belongings.Investigators say 30-year-old Clara Bender worked as an inspector at CPM Realty. She was performing a routine inspection at a rental home on Monday when the explosion happened.
Fire Battalion Chief Tim McCaw says the explosion ruptured a gas line, but that wasn’t the source of the blast. The blast was so intense that completely destroyed the house and shook the surrounding homes off their foundations.
Good Samaritans were able to pull Bender and another woman from the rubble, but the married mother-of-one would die from her injuries. Another woman and a 14-year-old boy were also injured in the blast, but their condition and identities have not been released.
CPM President Jeremy Aspen said they gained custody of the property on June 22 after the tenants were evicted, but the tenants had left behind more than $1,000 worth of possessions in the home. He said they worked with the former renters to get their belongings out of the property and that the former tenants had been in the property as recently as the past weekend.
Aspen has handed over call logs and other records of the communication with the evicted tenants to police, who are currently treating the blast site as a crime scene.
“We are heartbroken and so devastated over the loss of Clara Bender who worked as a property inspector on our team,” said Aspen in a statement. “She was a dear and beloved member of our company, a loving mother, wife and all around amazing person who cherished her family above all else.”
CPM has set up a GoFundMe account to help Clara’s family that has already raised $13000 of its $15000 goal.
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