Alternative Fuel Plant Burns in Northwest Indiana
A plant employee treated for serious burns.
A plant employee treated for serious burns.
Firefighters gained control within 20 minutes.
Blaze destroyed 252-foot-tall hydroformer and 67 storage tanks.
Fire suspected to have started in an exhaust fan.
Further information about the death is pending.
No impact on customers in the state.
Firefighters extinguish the blaze without allowing it to spread through the facility
About 4,000 gallons of jet fuel spilled and ignited on an interstate ramp.
Industrial press undergoing maintenance when accident occurred.
Amazing as it may seem, events as destructive as the Whiting, Indiana, refinery fire in 1955 have been consigned to the past quite easily. It takes a conscientious effort by those who least want to relive the experience to keep the memory alive.
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