Rescue crews had been using heat-imaging equipment and dogs to search for possible survivors after the blast destroyed one building and damaged a neighboring building. Autopsies were expected to be completed by the end of week, officials said. The Berks County coroner’s office identified two of the victims as 49-year-old Amy Sandoe of Ephrata and 60-year-old Domingo Cruz of Reading and said “additional forensic medical examinations” would be needed to positively identify the other five victims. It did not respond to questions from The Associated Press on Monday. Palmer, and we appreciate the outpouring of support as all of us continue to deal with the loss of our friends and coworkers,” the company said on Facebook Sunday. “The tragic events that occurred on Friday have had a profound impact on all of us at R.M. Palmer said in a weekend statement that everyone at the company was devastated, and it was reaching out to employees and their families through first responders and disaster recovery organizations because its communication systems were down. Two state police fire marshals are working to determine the cause and origin of the blast, he said. To say it’s one way or another, I would not say that at this point,” Beohm said. “Everything’s on the table at this point because we’re still not done with the investigation. The gas utility UGI said it had received no reports of a gas leak at the family-owned candy company. … It makes it really difficult to try to come up with a cause.”Īuthorities declined to address reports that plant workers had detected an odor of gas before the explosion. “So with that, when they picked the building apart with the excavator, yes, it makes it really hard then to try to figure out things. 1 goal of this, once the fire was out, gas stopped, is to look for the victims,” Pennsylvania State Police Master Trooper David Beohm said at a news conference Monday afternoon. With the recovery effort now over, attention turned to identifying the cause - a task complicated by the jumbled wreckage. One survivor was pulled from the rubble hours after the explosion rattled windows and shook houses. plant in West Reading, Pennsylvania, about 60 miles (96 kilometers) northwest of Philadelphia. Seven people were killed and several others wounded in the powerful blast at the R.M Palmer Co.
Investigators looking for the cause of a deadly explosion that leveled part of a Pennsylvania chocolate factory faced an even more difficult task Monday as they combed through wreckage that was extensively picked apart and moved around during the intensive weekend search for victims and survivors.
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