“It sounded like a bomb went off”: Residents react after White Lake refinery explosion

Local News By Luke Laster November 26, 2023 / 10:05 AM EST / CBS Detroit “It sounded like a bomb went off”: Residents react after White Lake refinery explosion “It sounded like a bomb went off”: Residents react after White Lake refinery explosion 01:43 WHITE LAKE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (CBS DETROIT) – White Lake police and township fire officials are working to discover the cause of an explosion at a refinery plant in White Lake Friday night.It happened shortly before 10:30 p.m. in the area of Young Road and Bogie Lake Road.It took a few hours before crews put it out, and White Lake Township’s fire chief, John Holland, says they don’t yet know what caused the flames.”Everything shook. I was afraid. I didn’t know what the heck was happening,” says White Lake resident Chelsea Vanhorn. Vanhorn lives in Cedarbrook Estates, a mobile home park just over a mile away from the fossil fuel recovery plant owned and operated by Hound Resources. “My plants fell off my shelves. I thought we got bombed,” Vanhorn said. Following what Vanhorn said was the explosion that shook her home, other residents of the mobile home park found themselves outside with their phones rolling around 10:30 p.m. Friday.
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