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Date: February 20, 2023 at 14:51:30
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Explosion Rocks Ohio Metals Plant, Media Reports |
URL: https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2023-02-20/explosion-rocks-ohio-metals-plant-media-reports |
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By Reuters
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Feb. 20, 2023, at 4:15 p.m.
(Reuters) - An explosion tore through an Ohio metals plant on Monday, sparking a fire and sending smoke
billowing into the sky, local media reported, citing witnesses.
Video from the scene showed multiple first responders on the site including fire fighters who were spraying
flames with water on the damaged factory about 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Cleveland.
The explosion occurred at the I Schumann & Co. metals plant in Bedford, causing a fire that triggered a call for
fire departments across the greater Cleveland and Akron areas to respond, WKYC television news reported, citing
witnesses.
WOIO television reported that at least one injured person would be transported by helicopter from the scene.
Representatives of the company could not immediately be reached for comment. The business has produced copper
alloys since 1917 and also produces brass and bronze alloys, according to its website.
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Date: February 22, 2023 at 19:12:04
From: pamela, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Explosion Rocks Ohio Metals Plant, Media Reports |
URL: https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/news/local_news/plane-crash-kills-5-headed-to-ohio-to-respond-to-metals-plant-explosion/article_38f5d61d-1582-5414-b3f2-73f0d008deef.html |
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Plane crash kills 5 headed to Ohio to respond to metals
plant explosion
By ANDREW DeMILLO - Associated Press Posted 3 hrs ago
at 6: 21 PM
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Five employees of an
environmental consulting firm died when a small
airplane they were traveling in crashed outside an
industrial area of Little Rock on Wednesday shortly
after the plane took off, authorities said.
The twin-engine plane crashed several miles south of
the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport, Pulaski
County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Lt. Cody Burk said.
The Federal Aviation Administration said five people
were on board the plane.
The twin-engine plane crashed a couple of miles south
of the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport,
Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Lt. Cody Burk
said. The Federal Aviation Administration said five
people were on board the plane.
The Beech BE20 had departed the Little Rock airport and
was headed to John Glenn Columbus International Airport
in Columbus, the FAA said.
Burk did not immediately release the names or ages of
the people on the plane. The FAA said it and the
National Transportation Safety Board will investigate
the crash.
CTEH, an environmental consulting firm based in North
Little Rock, said the five people on board the plane —
including the pilot — were its employees. A company
spokesman said the employees were responding to an
explosion at an Ohio metals plant this week that killed
one worker and sent more than a dozen to the hospital.
“We are incredibly saddened to report the loss of our
Little Rock colleagues,” Paul Nony, senior vice
president of CTEH, said in a statement released by the
company. “We ask everyone to keep the families of those
lost and the entire CTEH team in their thoughts and
prayers.”
The crash occurred as a line of thunderstorms that the
National Weather Service said included wind gusts of 40
mph (64 kph) moved through the Little Rock area. Burk
said it would be up to investigators to determine if
weather was a factor.
Nearby residents said they saw an intense fire from the
crash.
Dennis Gordon told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette he was
standing on a street nearby the crash when he heard the
wind pick up and then an explosion. Gordon told the
paper that several smaller explosions followed, and
then a huge fire.
“It was just red, then it starts turning black, and
there’s this burnt smell,” Gordon told the paper.
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