CNN Reports dozens of people were injured — many of them critically — in an explosion at a sugar refinery near Savannah, Georgia, Thursday evening, law enforcement and medical officials said.
The blast, at Imperial Sugar in Port Wentworth, happened shortly after 7 p.m.
Georgia Emergency Management Agency spokesman Buzz Weiss said hospitals were told to prepare for as many as 100 casualties from the explosion.
By just after 11 p.m., about 40 workers from the plant were being treated at area hospitals, according to Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department Chief Michael Berkow.
Search efforts were ongoing for another 6 workers believe to be still missing inside the plant, he said.
There were no immediate reports of fatalities.
“It was like walking into hell,” said Joyce Baker, who was with her husband, a Port Wentworth police officer, at a meeting at nearby City Hall, at the time of the explosion.
Savannah Fire Department officials said they were still fighting the fire at the plant after 11 p.m. — using a tug boat to blast water onto the blaze from the Savannah River.
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