BREAKING 4 killed, 3 missing after devastating chocolate factory explosion in West Reading, Pa.: Officials
Officials announced that four people are now dead after an explosion and four-alarm fire at a West Reading, Pennsylvania chocolate factory on Friday evening.Family and friends of those who work in the factory are concerned but are holding out hope. One family member spoke with Action News about his sister, who he says is still missing after the explosion.
Action News has learned the survivor is a woman who worked on the second floor of the factory. She was found in the basement sometime between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m.The woman was taken to the hospital after spending approximately eight hours in the rubble. There is no word yet on her current condition or her identity.
There has been no official word on a cause of this blast, including whether it was caused by a gas leak. The damage is extensive. Officials say RM Palmer Building #2 is destroyed and there's damage at the neighboring Palmer building #1."It's pretty leveled, unfortunately there's not too much to be able to salvage from it," said Mayor Samantha Kaag. "In the front, with the church and the apartments, the explosion was so big that it moved that building four feet forward.""I didn't know, I just come running out and saw that mess over there.
Philip Wert, vice president of the West Reading council, said the building had been constructed in the late 1950s or early 1960s, and officials had to "access our archive to pull the blueprints last night, in order to get a better layout of the building and the mechanicals and the utilities, where things are."
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