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Jack Lambert, who works at Segrave Aviation nearby, ran toward the plant to help people get out and saw about a dozen people with burns on their arms and backs. ``It smells like a bunch of rubber,'' Lambert told CNN.

The Lenoir County Sheriff's Department notified the medical examiner eight people had died, said Jane Martin at Pitt Memorial Hospital. The exact number of those injured because victims were being transferred between area hospitals.