{"id":264687,"date":"2013-06-23T15:40:24","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T20:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=264687"},"modified":"2013-06-25T02:01:15","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T07:01:15","slug":"employees-evacuated-during-fire-at-marshall-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=264687","title":{"rendered":"Employees Evacuated during Fire at Marshall Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=264688\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-264688\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/06\/thumb_firefighters-11-150x106.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_firefighters-1\" width=\"150\" height=\"106\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-264688\" \/><\/a>MARSHALL &#8212; Employees at the Norit Americas plant on Marshall\u2019s west side had to evacuate Friday night after fire erupted in an outdoor production area.  That&#8217;s according to KETK and the Longview News-Journal.  Marshall Fire Department Capt. Randall Jeans said firefighters responded to the blaze shortly after 10 p.m. in the 3200 block of University Avenue, near Loop 390.  Jeans said some of the product manufactured at the site ignited while employees were cleaning a gas-fired furnace used during production.   <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe maintenance crews had to evacuate the area and that just left the access doors open, and the product continued to spill out,\u201d Jeans said, describing the product as a very fine charcoal.  \u201cAs it spills out and gets out into the air, it burns very readily,\u201d he said.  Jeans said firefighters were able to extinguish the fire within 30 minutes. No injuries were reported.  Norit produces powdered activated carbon, a product used in reducing emissions at coal-fired power plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARSHALL &#8212; Employees at the Norit Americas plant on Marshall\u2019s west side had to evacuate Friday night after fire erupted in an outdoor production area. That&#8217;s according to KETK and the Longview News-Journal. Marshall Fire Department Capt. Randall Jeans said firefighters responded to the blaze shortly after 10 p.m. in the 3200 block of University &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=264687\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Employees Evacuated during Fire at Marshall Plant<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-07 10:40:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264687"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264948,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264687\/revisions\/264948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}