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Fire investigators are getting closer to nailing down an official cause of last week’s explosion that killed two people and injured two others just north of Huntington’s downtown.There is not yet any sign of the ignition source of the explosion, which leveled one home, destroyed another and significantly damaged a third.Initial reports after the Nov. 20 explosion were that an employee at Comcast may have accidentally punctured a gas line with a ground rod outside the two-story home.Vectren Corp. officials said telephone call recordings indicated the Comcast worker might have damaged the line, and a Vectren Energy Delivery employee was sent to the house.The employee, Robert “Alan” Dalrymple, 50, was killed in the subsequent blast, along with 75-year-old Emilie Wilson, a resident of the home.Wilson’s husband, Jack, suffered serious burns, as did the Comcast employee.
