Posted on 08/10/2005 12:06:47 AM PDT by MetalHeadConservative35
CNN) -- An explosion at a hazardous waste plant rocked suburban Detroit late Tuesday, sending fireballs and billowing smoke hundreds of feet in the air. There was no immediate word on injuries or fatalities.
Authorities with the Romulus Police Department and the fire department said the explosion happened at a chemical plant shortly after 9 p.m. and that a half-mile radius around the facility has been evacuated, including a nearby Ford plant.
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Carolyn
WDIV TV Detroit said the fire was still burning as of this morning, but it was small and contained. A neighbor told me this morning she heard from her son in law (who works near Lansing Michigan) and he said there was another chemical plant fire up that way last night/early this a.m. Anybody hear about it?
Not near me, this is by Detroit Metro airport. I'm in Warren.
I tried to walk up to where it happend to get a better look because i had friends in the area and i couldnt get through to there phones
I understand why you went over there, BUT this is a REAL BAD IDEA! I worked in a chemical plant for 11 years and trust me there are thing in your basic chemical plant that can kill you and you'll never know what hit you, I'm talking parts pre Billion.
Glad you're ok. Did you get in touch with your friend?
Glad you're okay. I'm way up in Southfield.
next time i run into her ill find out what her and her dad saw
Great, hope everyone is ok. It's not a good idea to live near one of these places. I never would.
Weren't you guys talking about Romulus?
what you kiddin? i didnt even know that place was a chemical plant...i thought it was a grain silo place,(irony it seems,that it went off like grains of gunpowder)
That's because it's really in Romulus, not Detroit, my young friend.
Yes, it was this Romulus that we were talking about.
A neighbor told me this morning she heard
from her son in law (who works near Lansing Michigan) and he said
there was another chemical plant fire up that way last night/early this
a.m. Anybody hear about it?<<<<<<<
Did you hear more about this?
Was there a second accident?
As usual, you were way ahead of me.
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