He said this on the air of the Russia 24 TV channel.
“There is a possibility, we continue the work,” Pavlov said.
Five people are said to have died in the explosion.
Search and rescue operations at the scene of the tragedy continued throughout the night.
By morning, 40 cubic meters of rubble out of 80 were dismantled.
Earlier, the Ministry of Health spoke about the condition of three victims of a gas explosion in the Tula region.
It was also reported that the Tula authorities would pay a million rubles each to the families of those killed in the gas explosion in Efremov.