An evacuation order affecting up to 2,000 people was expected to remain in place through Wednesday around a large industrial fire in an Indiana city near the Ohio border where crews worked through the night to douse piles of burning plastics, authorities said.
Multiple fires, which began burning Tuesday afternoon, continued burning Wednesday morning within about 14 acres of various types of plastics stored both inside and outside buildings at the former factory site in Richmond, 113 kilometres east of Indianapolis, Richmond fire Chief Tim Brown said.
“There’s plastics inside buildings, there’s plastics outside buildings, there’s plastics in semi-trailers that are throughout the
