An explosion at a West Virginia chemical plant that injured four people and rocked nearby homes prompted authorities to issue a shelter order. Early Wednesday morning, the Dream County Commission said the order had been revoked. The district commission said in a statement that the blast occurred just after 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Seymours plant in the Bellevue Dream County community. Two workers and one person were injured in the crash, Dream County Commissioner Kent Carper told WCHS-TV. Fire trucks responding to the plant. We believe the river pic.twitter.com/ICvzeRYDwc— Leslie Rubin (esLeslieRubinWCHS) was involved in the December 9, 2020 eruption of chlorinated dry bleach and methanol, Carber said. “There was at least one serious explosion and one fire at the plant,” Carber told the news agency. People living in the area said their homes were shaken. Emergency officials had announced an order to provide shelter about 2 miles around the plant and the nearby road was closed before firefighters could put out the fire and allow people to move around. This still is from a social media video of a fire at a Seymours chemical plant following an explosion on December 8, 2020, in Belle, West Virginia, USA. Belly Mayor David Fletcher, a volunteer firefighter at Timisha Lea Shears via REUTERS, said the fire was extinguished just before midnight. “Now we feel that everything is in good condition,” he told the television station. Still, it was a very difficult day, Dream County manager Jennifer Harold told the Associated Press. An explosion at a chemical plant when our first responders were already exhausted and tired of dealing with a funeral – this is a difficult situation to go through this evening. ”Located across the Kanawa River, 10 miles southeast of Charleston, Belly has about 1,100 residents. .
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