Hazardous materials teams worked Thursday in the remains of a Florida chemical plant where an explosion and fire killed four people and injured at least 14.
A U.S. Chemical Safety Board team arrived on the scene at the T2 Laboratories Inc. plant to investigate.
"Nothing there resembles a building," Mayor John Peyton said Wednesday. "It's amazing when you see the scene that there wasn't more loss of life."
Among those killed was Robert Scott Gallagher, 49, who co-owned the plant, which makes chemical solvents and fuel additives. Also killed in Wednesday's blast were Charles Budds Bolchoz, 48; Karey Renard Henry, 35; and Parish Lamar Ashley, 36.
Hospitals reported one patient in critical condition, three fair, seven good and that one had been released. Conditions for the rest were unknown, or it was not clear where they were being treated.
A phone message left Thursday on T2 Laboratories' emergency line was not immediately returned, nor was a message left on the cell phone of a chemical safety board team member in Jacksonville.
Businesses near the plant were closed Thursday, and a CSX rail crew was repairing damaged tracks behind the explosion site.
"There was like this tremendous boom like I've never heard in my life," Shannon Story, who works nearby, told WJXT. "Everything shook in the building, the power went out, light bulbs fell from ceiling. We all evacuated as fast as we could."
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