WEST READING, Pa.—Rod  Stout, a retired Air Force and sheet metal worker, lives close to R.M. Palmer building, a chocolate factory in West Reading, Pennsylvania, that exploded Friday afternoon around 5 pm. On Saturday afternoon, he told The Epoch Times near his house: “It was the biggest explosion that I ever heard in my life.”
Five people were killed, and two people are still missing after the devastating explosion Friday afternoon at R.M. Palmer, as West Reading Borough Council President Ryan Lineaweaver said Sunday afternoon.
R.M. Palmer building, a chocolate factory in West Reading, Pennsylvania, exploded Friday afternoon. The first responders were on site, on March 25, 2023. (William Huang/The Epoch Times)
“At first, I thought the train came off the railroad track and hit the ground. But then I looked out the window, and I saw the debris on the road from the building and the building was just gone,” said Scout….