Utility Worker Missing in Fatal Huntington House Explosion

The search continues this morning for a utility worker was investigating a natural gas leak at a house in Huntington, when the house exploded. Officials have found no sign of the Vectren Energy employee and they assume he’s dead. The explosion and fire also killed an elderly woman who lived in the house and it injured her husband and a Comcast employee who was doing work there. It happened just after five o’clock yesterday afternoon and fire officials say the house collapsed minutes later. The blast and fire also did extensive damage to the houses on either side of the one that exploded, but no one was hurt in those homes.