Flint-Area Chemical Explosion Evacuates Residents

GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - Some residents in a Genesee County community were allowed to return home following a chemical explosion and fire at a processing facility.  Grand Blanc Township Fire Chief James Harmes says crews found multiple sulfuric acid tanks burning inside the plant about 4 a.m. Friday.

Several employees inside the building were not injured.  Residents and people working within a half-mile of the plant were temporarily evacuated.  Harmes says the cause of the fire was not immediately known.

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