Fire, explosions hit Wis. chemical plant
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Explosions sent fireballs hundreds of feet into the air as flames gutted an industrial chemical recycling plant Friday morning.
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An explosion and fire Monday at a chemical distribution facility northeast of Des Moines sent plumes of thick smoke into the sky and burned out of control for several hours after it ignited.
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Several explosions engulfed a chemical plant in flames Wednesday in an industrial section of Kansas City, forcing a broad evacuation as a towering cloud of black smoke rose over the skyline.
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DANVERS, Massachusetts  - A huge explosion at a chemical plant rocked a suburb north of Boston early on Wednesday, sparking a massive fire that injured 10 people and damaged at least 30 homes, state authorities said.
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By Peyton Whitely, Seattle Times  Feb. 2--About 50 firefighters from seven Eastside fire departments engaged in a deadly serious exercise Thursday -- practicing for a terrorist attack at a plant where lethal chemicals are used.
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A huge explosion at a chemical plant rocked a suburb about 20 miles north of Boston early on Wednesday, sparking a massive fire that damaged about 30 homes and injured 10 people, local media reported.
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MILWAUKEE, Dec. 6 -- An explosion that may have started in a large propane tank flattened an industrial warehouse near downtown Milwaukee on Wednesday, killing at least three people and injuring 46 others, authorities said.
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Up to 100 people were injured in an explosion at a sugar refinery in the U.S. state of Georgia, the Savannah-Chatham police department said.
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NEW ULM, Minn. - Too bad firefighters didn't have a pile of popcorn handy - or better yet, loads of lobster tails.  An intense fire consumed half of the roof of the Associated Milk Producers Inc. butter packaging plant, sending melted butter flowing out of the facility.
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An investigation is opened into a huge fire at a chemical plant in Crewe which sent smoke across the town.
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A massive explosion that sent a cloud of black smoke over Jacksonville, Florida on Wednesday occurred across the street from a JEA generating plant but knocked two of three generating units offline, a company spokeswoman said.
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Thirteen people were killed and one seriously injured in an explosion at a power plant in Wu&#39;an City in north China&#39;s Hebei Province when the plant began trialoperation on Thursday afternoon.
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An explosion in a chemical works on an industrial estate sends a fireball 40ft into the air.
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An explosion at a South African gas plant has killed five workers and injured at least 100 others. A spokesman for the Sasol energy company says the blast occurred Wednesday at its ethylene plant in the northeastern town of Secunda, Mpumalanga.
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By Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.  Jun. 27--A vacant building near the Praxair facility in Cahokia was struck by lightning Tuesday afternoon.   The reported lightning strike resulted in the brief evacuation of employees from the new Praxair chemical plant.
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Explosions that killed five employees at a central Illinois chemical plant in 2004 were caused by a worker mistakenly opening a valve on a high-temperature processing unit, a federal agency said Tuesday.  The U.S.
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A fire broke out at Jebel Ali port in the United Arab Emirates on Monday, triggering explosions at a depot storing chemicals, a Dubai civil defence official said.