(AP) -- A Michigan Public Service Commission spokeswoman says a full investigation of the gas main explosion that destroyed a furniture store and killed two people is likely to take months. Spokeswoman Judy Palnau told The Detroit News for a story Saturday says investigators are looking at a natural gas main as the likely source of the Dec. 29 blast at Wm. C. Franks furniture store in Wayne.
Palnau says the state is interviewing employees of Consumers Energy, which operates the natural gas line, and having a section of the damaged gas line analyzed.
The blast killed 64-year-old James Zell and 54-year-old Leslie Machniak. Sixty-four-year-old store owner Paul Franks is in fair condition in the burn center of University of Michigan medical center in Ann Arbor.
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