KC: Firefighters battle flames at chemical plant
Kansas City StarPosted: February 8th, 2007 by Thomas L. Knapp
“Firefighters worked Thursday to douse the last of the flames at a chemical distribution business where several explosions shot fireballs into the air and sent black smoke drifting over the downtown skyline. Two workers at Chemcentral Corp. suffered minor injuries …. Police drove through the streets enforcing a mandatory evacuation of homes and businesses within five blocks of the company, which stores and distributes various chemicals and solvents. … tests by the Environmental Protection Agency found no threat to human health. Still, residents were cautioned against picking up any of the debris scattered by the blasts or what appeared to be a sticky substance deposited by the cloud as it streamed southwestward, and everyone within a mile of the company was urged to leave the area.” (02/08/07)
