Nobody was injured when a storage shed exploded on the North End last week.

North Whidbey Fire and Rescue Deputy Chief Ray Merrill is “pretty confident” the explosion, which occurred around 6 a.m. on Nov. 14 at a property on Angler’s Haven Drive, is the result of a “propane leak” ignited by a “spark from an electrical device.”

Neither of the adjacent home’s two occupants called in the explosion; a neighbor reported it much later, at 6:38 a.m.

“The renter said there was no fire, so he didn’t think they needed the fire department,” Merrill explained.

Merrill described the scene as a “mangled mess,” with debris scattered in about a 150-foot radius from the center of where the shed stood. The explosion also damaged the home’s soffit and windows.

Merrill said understanding the cause of inc

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