BLADEN COUNTY, NC (WWAY) — Officials said crews are working to contain a fire at a chemical plant.
Bradley Kinlaw with Bladen County Emergency Management said the fire was reported this morning at Tiger Products, also referred as Cape Fear Chemicals, on US 701 near Elizabethtown. He said crews began to work to contain the fire around 9:30 a.m.
US 701 was closed in both directions at the plant for most of the day as they work to put out the fire. Kinlaw said the road would be reopened by 5 p.m.
Kinlaw said the evacuated the facility and roughly five homes that were downwind, but those evacuation orders have been lifted. No injuries were reported.