TOLEDO, Ohio — Explosions rocked an Ohio industrial recycling business early Tuesday, killing two workers and sparking a large fire, officials said.
\n\nFlames and dark smoke poured from Brent Industries in Toledo as fire engines surrounded the building, TV news video showed.
\n\nCrews later discovered the bodies of two employees, a man and a woman, inside the smoldering building, said Toledo Fire Chief Allison Armstrong. Two or three other employees had minor injuries, she said.
\n\nTwo explosions occurred shortly before 5 a.m., during a shift change, Armstrong said. Crews had to deal with hazardous materials, runoff and the threat of more explosions while first searching for victims and accounting for the other employees, she said.
\n\nEnvironmental officials said monitors showed that there was no hazardous threat in the air.
\n\nDemetrius Langston said he felt the explosion half a mile (0.8 kilometers) away. He ran outside with his phone and captured video of a huge plume of smoke rising into the dark sky.
\n\n“The shock waves came down the block,” he said. “Then we all heard it again. Boom! You could feel it.”
\n\nArmstrong said the fire was still burning Tuesday afternoon. She also said there were no preliminary indications of…
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