700 Routed in City of Industry
About 700 people were evacuated for six hours from their homes and businesses this morning and at least a dozen were treated for irritated eyes, sore throats and nausea after a noxious cloud erupted from an overheated vat of epoxy resin at a fiberglass plant in the City of Industry.
Los Angeles County firefighters said the cloud began to spread over a two-square-mile commercial and residential neighborhood surrounding the Dexter Corp. plant at 15051 Don Julian Road shortly before midnight. Most of those treated were employees at firms adjacent to the plant, which was closed for the night, but three were crewman from a freight train that rolled through the cloud. About 75 of the evacuees were given temporary shelter at a nearby high school.
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