The 13-story building has a Chase Bank branch at street level and apartments in upper floors.
The NTSB said pipeline and hazardous materials investigators arrived in Youngstown on Wednesday night, and would announce more details at a news briefing on Thursdaythat blew out much of the ground floor of an apartment building in Ohio this week, killing a bank employee and injuring several other people.
Police and emergency officials initially blamed natural gas, but the fire chief later said the cause remained under investigation. The explosion shook downtown Youngstown around 2:45 p.m. Tuesday, collapsing part of the ground floor of Realty Tower into its basement and across a street where both sides had been blocked off by orange construction barriers. Bricks, glass and other debris littered the sidewalk outside the 13-story building, which had a Chase Bank branch at street level and apartments in upper floors.
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