{"id":1216,"date":"2006-10-06T08:37:17","date_gmt":"2006-10-06T12:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=1216"},"modified":"2006-10-06T08:37:17","modified_gmt":"2006-10-06T12:37:17","slug":"toxic-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=1216","title":{"rendered":"Toxic\u00c2\u00a0cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just getting ready to head out the door, and I give CNN.com a glance... this is what I see: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/US\/10\/06\/plant.fire\/index.html\">Toxic\u00c2\u00a0cloud\u00c2\u00a0from plant fire forces thousands\u00c2\u00a0to evacuate<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul><strong>APEX, North Carolina <\/strong>(CNN) -- Half of the 32,000 residents of Apex, North Carolina, have been asked to evacuate Friday after explosions and fire at a hazardous waste plant released noxious gases and flames 150 feet high over the town.<\/p>\n<p>People \"are putting themselves in very grave danger by being near or around this smoke. If you see smoke, get away from it.\" said Bruce Radford, town manager of the Raleigh suburb.<\/p>\n<p>\"There are pesticides, oxides, chlorine gases, there are all grades of contaminated material in this fire and in this smoke,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>No deaths have been reported from the fire at the plant, called Environmental Quality Industrial Services, but more than 100 people have been hospitalized.\n<\/ul>\n<p>I live in Apex, NC. I'm about a mile from the edge of the evacuation zone.<\/p>\n<ul>\"This is the worst possible hazardous materials incident you could have,\" Radford said.<\/p>\n<p>\"There are all grades of contaminated materials in this smoke and the fire,\" he said. \"If you see this smoke, get away from it.\"<\/p>\n<p>...<\/p>\n<p>Weatherly said the fire had spread to a nearby petroleum farm and had ignited four storage tanks containing a total of about 200,000 gallons of fuel. Officials were unsure if the fire had spread beyond that, however, he said.<\/ul>\n<p>The evacuation area sits between me and my job. Maybe I'll <strike>go in late<\/strike> stay home today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just getting ready to head out the door, and I give CNN.com a glance... this is what I see: Toxic\u00c2\u00a0cloud\u00c2\u00a0from plant fire forces thousands\u00c2\u00a0to evacuate: APEX, North Carolina (CNN) -- Half of the 32,000 residents of Apex, North Carolina, have been asked to evacuate Friday after explosions and fire at a hazardous waste plant released [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}