Footage captured the moment a chocolate factory in Pennsylvania went up in flames. The explosion tragically took the lives of two people and injured several others.
The blast, which sparked a fire, destroyed one building and damaged a number of neighbouring apartments.Thick plumes of smoke could be seen for miles ‘It’s pretty leveled,’ West Reading Borough Mayor Samantha Kaag said of the explosion site.
‘The building in the front, with the church and the apartments, the explosion was so big that it moved that building four feet forward.’ The cause of the blast in the community about 60 miles northwest of Philadelphia was under investigation.Eight people were taken to Reading Hospital Friday evening, Tower Health spokeswoman Jessica Bezler said.
Two people were admitted in fair condition and five were being treated and would be released, she said in an email.Kaag said people were asked to move back about a block in each direction from the site of the explosion but no evacuations were ordered.SheMs Soto also described a ‘loud noise, like a roaring sound’ in the seconds before the explosion.
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