Expectations that the fire will remain burning for a few days
A massive fire broke out on Tuesday afternoon in an abandoned factory, which was designated before its closure in 2009 for recycling in the city of Richmond, far in the US state of Indiana, 110 kilometers from its capital, Indianapolis.
And the city police said in a statement that the focus of the fire, which led to the rise of columns of black smoke, and the evacuation of more than 2,000 residents, broke out in a factory called Hoffco and was used after its closure to store plastic materials, and that the evacuation order included residents and people who were within 800 meters from the fire. .
As for those outside that area, the authorities advised them to close the windows and keep pets inside, according to Al-Arabiya.net summarizing the news hurdles I suffered in 3 media sites, including the American Fox News television network, which quoted Dave Snow, Mayor of ” Richmond said the fire was “so serious and widespread” that he expected it to burn for a few days.
Tim Brown, chief of the city’s fire department, held a press conference on Tuesday evening, in which he said that the closed factory “was storing an unknown type of plastic, and that the fire spread to other plastic piles (…) We only had one entrance to the fire, because all Other access roads are clogged with piles of plastic.” He then warned against inhaling the smoke “because it is definitely toxic” and expected the fire to burn for days.