'Splosion Rocks Detroit Waste Plant
Wednesday, August 10, 2005; Posted: 5:50 a.m. EDT (09:50 GMT)
(CNN) -- An explosion at a hazardous waste plant rocked suburban Detroit late Tuesday, sending fireballs and billowing smoke hundreds of feet in the air.
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 one-mile radius around the facility has been evacuated, including a nearby Ford plant.
Some workers were inside the waste plant at the time of the blast, but all of them got out safely, said Kathleen Trent, spokeswoman for the city of Romulus. No injuries were reported.
(CNN) -- An explosion at a hazardous waste plant rocked suburban Detroit late Tuesday, sending fireballs and billowing smoke hundreds of feet in the air.
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 one-mile radius around the facility has been evacuated, including a nearby Ford plant.
Some workers were inside the waste plant at the time of the blast, but all of them got out safely, said Kathleen Trent, spokeswoman for the city of Romulus. No injuries were reported.
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