RT NewsAn enormous explosion shook a chemical plant in Geismer, Louisiana, just south of Baton Rouge on Wednesday. The blast was followed by a huge fire. 25 have been injured in the blast, with fatality numbers currently unconfirmed.
Emergency crews are on the scene and have reported injuries. A hazardous materials team has also been dispatched to the fire.
25 people have been confirmed injured in the explosion by the Louisiana Emergency Response Network. Currently there have been no reported deaths. However, five trauma patients are being treated by Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, and they expect more, according to NBC 33.
Iberville Office of Emergency Preparedness have stated that six burn victims have been transported to various hospitals via helicopter, and four by ground, with emergency officials still manning the scene.
10 ambulances still on scene at triage, Air Med rotating back & forth between hospitals and scene #Breaking #News #Louisiana #Geismar
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After the initial blast, clouds of thick black smoke could be seen billowing towards the sky, visible from a local school. Flames could be seen rising from two separate locations.
“It looked like a pretty big explosion – it looks like Williams have taken all the precautions they can do to evacuate all the personnel. The firefighters are responding as needed,” witness Ryan Meador told local station 90 WAFB.
“Everyone evacuated to the road. Everyone is trained for something like this.”
Meador released witness footage of the fire’s aftermath:
St. Gabriel residents are being told to take shelter from Highway 3115 to Highway 74 as a precautionary measure.
A man named Todd Stiles who worked half a mile away told the New Orleans-based Times-Picayune that he and his colleagues were instructed to either shelter in place or evacuate. He reportedly didn’t hear the explosion as he was located in a blast-proof area, but told the paper that some people had seen a ‘fireball in the air.’
Williams Olefins, which owned the plant, are involved in the production of plastics with clients in the petrochemicals industry. The facility annually produces approximately 1.3 billion lbs of ethylene and 90 million lbs of polymer grade propylene.
The air quality in the area has started being monitored by the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality and Environmental Protection Agency. They are currently unsure of the levels and specific chemicals that could be leaking into the atmosphere. “We’re just in the very beginning of this.” They told the Times-Picayune.
Other buildings in the area are reportedly being evacuated, and there are fears another explosion could happen and the fire is not fully under control. A nearby plant told the 90 WAFB channel that the major risk is butadiene spheres, in which crude budatiene is stored under pressure as a liquid.
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Create chaos & confusion to control the masses, it’s the same Elitist action, over & over. If you learn to recognize their methods it’s easy to predict their actions! You’d think after a few hundred years we’d learn. How many wars & explosions are going on around the world at this very instant?—-Fight for Freedom
probably another false flag set up
It would seem Louisiana is just plain doomed. One thing after another.
Wonder what kind of chemicals are circulating into the atmosphere.
These misfits need to take a hike out of the US. Their leaving would
not be treason but a blessing.
do these plants have siemens controllers?
Let me guess, Monsanto probably sabotaged it, right? Just like the Waco plant.
This plant also probably had “legal issues” with Monsanto. Is the same owner as the Waco plant? Anyone know anything in relation to that?
Good thing the California San Onofre nuclear power plant closed down or that might have been on the hit list, too.
Don’t you just love how the elite can’t kill us quick enough, so they go around their problem, rather than face their problem (like the politicians do). So now they just blow up power plants, poison our food with GMO crap, cause natural disasters with HAARP in every state, oil spills and forest fires galore, cause bridges to deteriorate and fall, cause sinkholes to happen, cause new diseases to outbreak with their infamous “experimental vaccines” and then just get the masses to fight against each other using various social stereotypes and uprisings, have cops and politicians kill people for no reason and get away with it so that the people will eventually make war on them both, in addition to taking our children off to war with some country no one gives a shit about, but that’s one less person for them to feed or worry about.
Did I miss anything? lol