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An explosion Friday evening at the R.M. Palmer Chocolate Factory in West Reading, Pennsylvania, left two confirmed dead and eight injured, along with five others still missing.
A sixth missing person was recovered alive from underneath the rubble overnight.
The blast, and a subsequent four-alarm fire, broke out at the facility just before 5 p.m. Friday. Weather cameras from WTXF-TV, a Philadelphia Fox affiliate, captured the explosion ripping through the roof of a building.
Preliminary theories from officials suggest a gas leak was responsible for the explosion, but investigation and rescue efforts at the factory continue Saturday. Building #2 at the R.M. Palmer factory is destroyed, and there is damage to Building #1.
