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An evacuation order affecting more than 1,000 people was expected to remain in place through Wednesday around a large\u00a0industrial fire\u00a0in an Indiana city near the Ohio border where crews worked through the night to douse piles of burning plastics, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Multiple fires, which began burning Tuesday afternoon, continued burning Wednesday morning within about 14 acres of various types of plastics stored both inside and outside buildings at the former factory site in Richmond, 70 miles east of Indianapolis, Richmond fire chief Tim Brown said.<\/p>\n
Credit: Nick Graham<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s plastics inside buildings, there\u2019s plastics outside buildings, there\u2019s plastics in semitrailers that are throughout the grounds here at the complex, so we\u2019re dealing with many type of plastics. It\u2019s very much a mess,\u201d Brown said.<\/p>\n
Brown said a plume of smoke continued rising Wednesday from the site and about 15 firefighters had remained in place overnight working to fight the flames, which he said are contained within the old factory site. He said those fires are \u201cnot under control by any means\u201d but he is optimistic crews will make progress Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were waiting for daylight so we could start aggressively extinguishing the fire,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Between 1,500 and 2,000 people who live within a half-mile (0.8 kilometer) of the plant were told to leave after the fire began, said David Hosick, spokesperson for the Indiana Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n
Brown, the fire chief, said it\u2019s unclear how many people have been evacuated from around the site. People outside that radius who live downwind of the fire were advised to keep windows closed and pets inside.<\/p>\n
Brown said the evacuation order would remain in place through Wednesday and perhaps into Wednesday night, depending on how much progress crews make in putting out the flames. He said the fire\u2019s cause remains under investigation.<\/p>\n
Aaron Stevens, a Richmond police officer who lives six blocks from the plant, said he first heard the sirens Tuesday before he saw the pillar of smoke from his backyard that blocked the afternoon sun. The smoke came with an acrid odor and he said ash then fell on his deck and backyard.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was blocking out the sun completely,\u201d he said. \u201cThe birds were going crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite the evacuation warning, Stevens said he plans on staying put after recently suffering an injury. His sister who lives at their childhood home, which is closer to the plant and in eyesight of the flames, came to stay with her brother to escape the smoke. Stevens said he plans on keeping an eye on the changing updates around the smoke.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf there is an increased concern for toxic safety, I do have a contingency plan,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
State and federal regulators were at the scene to assess air quality and other environmental impacts at the site, which local officials said has been used to store plastics and other materials for recycling or resale.<\/p>\n
Jason Sewell, the on-scene coordinator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, said the agency has been doing roving air sampling outside the evacuation area and into part of nearby Ohio, but no toxic compounds have been detected.<\/p>\n
He stressed, however, that smoke is harmful to inhale because it contains particulate matter of different sizes and can contain toxics, and residents should avoid the smoke.<\/p>\n
Sewell said air sampling was continuing Wednesday in Richmond, a city of 35,000 residents.<\/p>\n
Because of smoke still wafting from the fire, Indiana\u2019s environmental agency issued an air quality advisory Wednesday for two eastern Indiana counties, Wayne and Randolph, warning that forecasts call for elevated levels of fine soot particles in the air.<\/p>\n
Credit: Nick Graham<\/p>\n
Indiana\u2019s state fire marshal, Steve Jones, said Tuesday \u201cthe smoke is definitely toxic\u201d and residents need to get away from the smoke plumes, especially elderly people with respiratory problems. He said that if the wind changes, officials may alter the evacuation order.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a host of different chemicals that plastics give off when they\u2019re on fire. And so it\u2019s concerning,\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n
Brown said the only injury has been a firefighter who suffered an ankle injury overnight Tuesday while fighting the flames, but was treated and released.<\/p>\n
Bethesda Worship Center in Richmond offered temporary shelter for people forced out of their homes, while other agencies were trying to arrange hotel rooms if necessary, Pastor Ken Harris said Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Richmond Mayor Dave Snow said the site had been under a city order to clean up and remediate the complex, but said the business owner had ignored that order. Snow called that person \u201ca negligent business owner.\u201d<\/p>\n
Callahan reported from Indianapolis. Associated Press video journalist Beatrice Dupuy in New York contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KENNEDY\u2019S \u201cBORN IN AMERICA\u201d BOMBSHELL: ONLY U.S.-SOIL NATIVES CAN LEAD \u2013 \u201cNO MORE FOREIGN PUPPETS IN THE OVAL OR CAPITOL!\u201dSenate Floor. Sergeant Major John Neely Kennedy didn\u2019t introduce a bill. No naturalized….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hot-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t