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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) The storms that occurred in Western Pennsylvania on April 29th, 2025 were so powerful that three people were killed that evening in relation to these storms and hundreds of thousands of people lost power. They were also recently classified by the Storm Prediction Center as a derecho, which is a severe wind event with consistent wind gusts of over 58 miles per hour over the course of at least 25 miles. The trio of men that were killed in relation to these storms were sixty-seven-year-old Raymond Gordon, fifty-nine-year-old David Lepinsky of Reserve and twenty-five-year-old Andrew M. Celaschi of Jefferson. Gordon was killed when he was hit by tree on Evergreen Road in Allegheny County. Lepinsky was electrocuted by live wires in Pittsburgh on St. Martin Street. Celaschi was a passenger traveling in a vehicle on Jefferson Road in Franklin Township, and he was killed because of a tree that fell on top of the vehicle that he was in.