Oakland, CA : One person dead,and Two deputies injured in crash on Tuesday morning August 11th 2015

A man was found dead in the rubble of a West Oakland triplex where an explosion and fire erupted Tuesday morning as a landlord and sheriff's deputies were on the doorstep serving an eviction notice, authorities said.
Inside the unit, investigators later found signs of booby traps as well as a severed gas line, which likely fueled the explosion.
The 45-year-old man found dead under debris near the front door has not been identified, but was said to be a tenant in a unit where rent had not been paid since May, officials and the landlord said.
The blast blew out large portions of the unit, and sent the eviction servers and residents in two adjacent units running for safety. No one else was seriously injured.It all began just before 11 a.m., when landlord Jeremy Flieder, a worker, and two Alameda County sheriff's deputies, were attempting to change the locks and evict the tenant in the rear of a two-story building in the 1400 block of Peralta Street, Flieder and authorities said.
As the worker was using a drill to remove a key jammed in the lock, an explosion ripped through the unit, Flieder said.
"It sounded like a boom. It blew out the wall and a window," he said.
Gideon Wandera, who had spent the night at the triplex where his cousin lives, said the explosion shook the house, as windows shattered.
"I took two steps and hit the hallway when I saw fire coming at me," said Wandera, 34, who lives in Oakland and works as a high school basketball referee and as security in a Jack London Square restaurant. "My cousin grabbed the fire extinguisher out of the kitchen and did what he could. The fire went down for a second but it didn't stay down.
"I thought we were really under attack. Then we heard the sheriff yelling, 'Get out,' and we did. I've never seen anything like that before."
It appears natural gas caused the explosion and fire, but what triggered it was under investigation Tuesday. Sgt. J.D. Nelson of the sheriff's office said investigators had not ruled out the possibility the explosion was intentionally set. Another theory is sparks from the drill might have ignited the lingering gas, he said.
It also was not clear yet if the man died before the explosion or because of it, and he has not been identified as the tenant facing eviction. A dog was also found dead inside.
The landlord, Flieder, said the tenant, who has lived there for about five years, stopped paying rent in May. Flieder said he began trying to evict the tenant then, but the tenant did not have a phone and would not answer the door or respond to written notices.
So Flieder sought the help of the Alameda County Sheriff's Office, which serves evictions throughout the county. The tenant, according to Flieder, had previously had run-ins with neighbors. The building, which has three units and six tenants total, is one of several Flieder owns locally.
Flieder, who was feet from the door at the time of the explosion, said he felt fortunate he and others were not badly injured.
"Things can be replaced, lives not so much," he said.
A deputy serving the eviction suffered a concussion and another deputy had smoke inhalation, and both were hospitalized, authorities said.
About 18 Oakland firefighters attacked the blaze and contained it by 11:30 a.m., Battalion Chief Erik Logan said. The explosion blew out the upper and lower portions of the rear of the triplex and gutted a significant part of the building. No firefighters were injured, Logan said. No damage estimate was available Tuesday, a fire official said.

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Oakland explosion: 1 found dead, 2 deputies injured in blast during eviction