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At around 9 am on Wednesday, January 11, 2023, the Carus Chemical plant in La Salle, Illinois, was involved in a major fire. [3] [4] The plant, which is located about 90 miles (140 km) from Chicago and 80 miles (130 km) from the Quad Cities and was used for manufacturing water treatment products, caught fire.
Sometime after 7:00 a.m., emergency crews were alerted to a fire at the plant. Explosions caused by the fire reportedly sounded like "fireworks". [4] According to Rockton Fire Department Chief Kirk Wilson, 70 people were evacuated from the plant; however, a statement by Lubrizol said the number was closer to 50.
OSHA has begun its investigation into the explosion and fire that injured two workers at a chemical plant in East St. Louis on Sunday, and the Illinois EPA plans to begin examining the site on ...
October 5—New Zealand—At 2:15 am, a cable trench fire at Transpower's Penrose substation in Auckland disconnected supply to Vector's local distribution network. Over 85,000 customers in Auckland's central-eastern suburbs lost electricity for over 12 hours. 50% of customers were reconnected by evening and 75% by the following morning.
The cause of that fire is still under investigation, and likely will be for months, but attorneys have pointed to both witness reports and surveillance video that appears to show its power lines ...
The image is miscaptioned. It's from 2021 and not new or "breaking." It also doesn't show a bus crash. It shows a fire at an Illinois chemical plant.
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Fire crews were called an the Met-Ed's West Lebanon Substation at 160 N. 16th St. just after 8:42 this morning. The fire caused disruptions to 3,300 costumers throughout the county, including in ...