The problem first started this morning at
the small town of Orchard at the
northwest end of Fort Ben County,
several teams of volunteer firemen rushed
to an abandoned sulfur plant just inside
the city limits of Orchard Farm
and found a portion of several acres of
sulfur on fire.
They got the fire under control, but the
wind carried clouds of sulfur dioxide.
A toxic chemical over several surrounding
counties has been known to flare back
up quite a bit.
And that stuff is still hot underneath
there in large part through at any time.
And when it does, well, here we go again.
Winds carry the fumes away from orchard
and toward east, bannered a few miles to
the south west.
Residents were warned to get out of town
or stay indoors with the air conditioning
off from East Baynard.
We made our way west to Eagle Lake, where
there was a light haze in the air and the
faint smell of sulfur.
For the most part, it seemed business as
usual in Eagle Lake, but a local clinic
had seen several people who were either
concerned about the sulfur fumes or
had been directly affected by it.
As it appeared to dissipate, the sulfur
cloud kept moving west.
Apparently, at this point, the only
serious injury from the entire incident
occurred back at the origin of the sulfur
fire. A volunteer fireman
had slipped and fallen in the boiling
sulfur and burned his arm.
As for the people of Archer, they wish
someone would do something about this off
field. It has been abandoned for 10
years, we were told, and there have been
other fires here.
I'm Napoleon Johnson.
Big news.
As for the people of Archer, they wish
someone would do something about this off
of field, it has been abandoned for
10 years, we were told, and there have
been other fires here.
I'm Napoleon Johnson.
Big to news.