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6,000 urged to evacuate as fertilizer plant fire threatens an ammonium nitrate explos

Mr.Falcon

Posted 9:04 pm, 02/01/2022

A fire that erupted Monday night at the Winston Weaver Fertilizer plant in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, has diminished in size but still poses a threat to the community, authorities say.

"We are not out of the woods, but the fire is behaving as we would like for it to behave," Winston-Salem Fire Chief Trey Mayo said in a briefing Tuesday afternoon.
The fire forced emergency responders to urge the evacuation of about 6,000 people earlier, including Wake Forest University students and more than 200 inmates from a nearby prison.
The potential for an ammonium nitrate explosion at the plant was a top concern, fire officials said, as authorities scrambled to evacuate almost 2,500 homes within a mile of the blaze.
There were 600 tons of ammonium nitrate and 5,000 tons of finished fertilizer on the site, Winston-Salem Fire Chief Trey Mayo said earlier Tuesday. That compares with the 240 tons of ammonium nitrate at a West, Texas, fertilizer plant blast that killed 15 people in 2013. Winston-Salem is more densely populated than rural West, Texas.
"If that doesn't convey the gravity of this situation and how serious folks need to take it, I don't know how else to verbalize that," Mayo said.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02...index.html

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