2,000 Flee Chemical Fire in Pennsylvania
United Press International
ROARING SPRING, Pa. —
About 2,000 people returned home early Saturday after an explosion and toxic chemical fire at a paper plant forced the midnight evacuation of two-thirds of the town of 2,963 residents, authorities said.
Those people living within a quarter-mile of the Appleton Paper Co. were evacuated to an area high school after the fire broke out when a heating coil containing gas ruptured in a power boiler Friday night.
Forty residents were treated for fume inhalation at local hospitals and released.
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