A chemical fire at a facility where chemicals are blended for oilfield operations forced residents to evacuate or hunker down Tuesday evening in their homes.
Despite reports of a huge plume of black smoke billowing from the Multi-Chem Corp. facility near the New Iberia airport, Louisiana state police and Iberia Parish emergency management officials said no one was injured in the initial explosion around 4 p.m. CDT and several blasts that followed. All workers at the facility were accounted for.
Stephen Hammons, a state police spokesman, said teams had not determined what chemicals were burning inside a warehouse.
The explosion took place in a building next to the Acadiana Regional Airport, which was ordered to close.
Hammons said firefighters decided it was safest to let the fire burn itself out.
***Info. provided by TheAssociatedPress***
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