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Worker rescued from condo blast in Norfolk dies

One of the workers pulled from the rubble of a firey explosion at a Norfolk Condominium Friday has died.State Fire Marshal Steven Coan says the victim was in the basement of the building at the Villate at Rivers Edge. 

He's 48 year old William Nichols of Blackstone.  He died Friday night at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

Coan says the explosion that leveled the building remains under investigaiton, but adds it most likely was triggered by propane.

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