Aug. 23 (UPI) -- A mandatory evacuation remains Saturday within a 1-mile radius of a lubricant manufacturer and distributor in Louisiana that exploded one day earlier.
Smitty's Supply, which employs about 400 people at the plant, erupted at 1 p.m. CDT Friday in a plume of black smoke in Roseland, which is 81 miles north of New Orleans.
The fire is continuing to burn, local, state and federal officials said at a briefing Saturday morning.
Several small explosions erupted, Louisiana Police Sgt. William Huggins said at the briefing but there were no new risks.
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