Sugar plant fire doused; toll reaches 8
From Times Wire Reports
Firefighters finally doused the last flames of a deadly sugar refinery blast, a week after the Port Wentworth refinery ignited.
An eighth victim badly burned in the explosion died in a hospital. At least one worker remained missing.
Sugar dust is thought to be the cause of the Feb. 7 blast. Emergency crews were able to snuff out the fire at the plant’s main building, but the blaze continued at the refinery’s 80-foot silos, where thick masses of molten sugar still smoldered.
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