ATF investigating explosion that damaged DC home

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Nov 12, 2026
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And welcome in tonight, first on Fox, an explosion at a D.C. home.
Now, the ATF is getting involved.
Investigators, they are working to determine if the family
who lived there was targeted,
and if so, by who?
Sydney Persing is live in Northwest now with the new details.
Sydney?
Well, Jim and Angie, we don't know what type
of device this was, who put it here, or why,
but we do now have surveillance video from the moment of the explosion,
and we have just spoken with the woman who lives here.
Watch closely and listen carefully to this surveillance video.
That is the sound of what ATF investigators believe
is an explosive device detonating at
the front door of a Northwest D.C. home Tuesday.
Somebody put an explosive device on my door.
The woman who lives at this home
on Kenyon Street Northwest with her six kids
did not want to show her face,
but told us they were home and upstairs when they heard it.
It sounded like a bomb. It shook my house. When we came down,
we seen nothing but smoke and glass everywhere and my door hanging.
Investigators can't say for sure if this family was targeted,
but did confirm it does appear that device
was deliberately left at the front door.
Thankfully, nobody was injured.
I do know right now I don't feel safe in this home.
I don't feel safe anymore.
I lived here three years.
I never had this problem.
This is the first time that I feel like my safety is being jeopardized
and that I can't trust too many people now
because I don't know what's going on and I don't know who's doing it.
She said the same thing happened.
Three weeks ago, another explosion in late October,
one that knocked the glass out of her front window.
Who could or would want to hurt her or her family?
Not once, but twice, she said.
She just doesn't know.
Whatever it is, a bomb, firecrackers,
whatever they're using, I'm not sure.
But they did it the first time, they did it the second time,
I don't want it to be a third time.
So, we're moving.
And that family has moved out tonight.
They have left.
They said they're just not going to chance it,
as it's obviously a very scary situation.
We know that when the ATF was here on scene,
they collected several pieces of evidence.
Those are off-site now and being processed.
Agents stress this is the very beginning stages of an investigation.
They are actively working leads, they say, at this hour.
Jim and Angie.
