Explosion rocks Wisconsin's only refinery, at least 11 hurt
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Superior, Wisconsin: A tank containing wanton oil or pavement exploded during a vast refinery in Wisconsin on Thursday, injuring several people and call glow officials to titillate people vital circuitously a still-burning plant to leave their homes.
No fatalities have been reported, though during slightest 11 people were being treated during hospitals in Superior, where a blast happened, and circuitously Duluth, Minnesota.
The blast during a Husky Energy oil refinery, a usually refinery in a state of Wisconsin, happened during about 10am, Superior Fire Chief Steve Panger told The Associated Press.
Panger pronounced a glow was out by 11.20am, nonetheless fume could still be seen rising from a plant. Superior military after tweeted that a glow had reignited and urged residents vital within a one-mile radius of a refinery to leave. Police blocked roads around a refinery in Superior, that is home to about 27,000 people and borders Minnesota to a north and a tip of Lake Superior.
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