Posted on 02/01/2022 3:38:58 AM PST by Libloather
WINSTON SALEM, N.C. - A fire at a North Carolina fertilizer plant is prompting evacuations amid fears that a large explosion could occur.
According to WSOC-TV, the fire began Monday night at the Weaver Fertilizer Plant in Winston-Salem. Although crews attempted to battle the blaze, officials “pulled the firefighters back” around 8:30 p.m. over concerns that ammonium nitrate at the plant could cause a major explosion, Mayor Allen Joines told the Winston-Salem Journal.
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It was not immediately clear what caused the fire, WGHP reported. Authorities said they have not received any reports of injuries in connection with the blaze.
Police are asking everyone within a one-mile radius of the plant to evacuate for 48 hours, according to the news outlets. An estimated 6,500 residents live in the area, the city tweeted early Tuesday.
Nearby Wake Forest University also canceled classes and urged students who live in some areas off-campus to evacuate, according to WGHP. The evacuation area does not include any on-campus housing, the university said.
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What a coincidence with a fertilizer shortage already looming.
Both our BS meters registered the same on this. Is this the fertilizer cartel looking to lumberize the price of fertilizer or merely our DC leaders scheming to starve us all to death? Notice the lack of any sarc. on my comment.
Yep… this is the last thing America needs given the already existing inflation of food prices. Let’s go, Brandon!
Coincidence?
Or both.
Lack of sarcasm here, too.
My new method of determining what the left is likely to do is to think of the most evil, underhanded, immoral, destructive thing someone could do to others, and that’s what’s on their agenda.
I passed attributing events to coincidence or accident a long time ago.
My new method of determining what the left is likely to do is to think of the most evil, underhanded, immoral, destructive thing someone could do to others
= = =
Me too.
And when you use your Godly mind, you won’t get near what their satanic mind develops.
But it helps to dilute the ‘surprise’ level.
Yes, you have very sensitive BS meter.
My wife sells fertilizer for a major US corporation. They already have massive supply chain issues. I will ask her about the impact of this one tonight
It would be interesting to hear an honest assessment instead of media lies and spin.
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