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DAILY NEWS
10/24/11
(MILANO)--THE
TOWERING BLACK PLUME OF SMOKE SEEN IN THE
MILANO AREA IS COMING FROM AN OIL WELL FIRE
OFF OF COUNTY
ROAD 328. THE WELL ON THE POLZER PLACE
CAUGHT FIRE AROUND
2 AM SUNDAY. LOCAL FIREMEN HAVE CONTAINED
THE BLAZE AND
KEPT IT FROM SPREADING WHILE A CREW FROM
HALLIBURTON IS
TRYING TO GET THE BLAZE OUT. NO ONE WAS HURT
ALTHOUGH
SEVERAL VEHICLES AND OUT BUILDINGS BURNED
WHEN THE FIRE
STARTED.
ACCORDING TO ROCKDALE FIRE MARSHAL HERBIE
VAUGHN,
THE FIRE DID NOT SPREAD AND MILANO FIREMEN
HAVE KEPT A
WATCHFUL EYE ON THE BLAZE THROUGHOUT THE
MORNING.
ROCKDALE FIREMEN WERE ALSO SUMMONED TO THE
SCENE.
KRXT RECIEVED SEVERAL CALLS SUNDAY MORNING
ON THE LARGE PLUME OF SMOKE COMING FROM THE
AREA SOUTH OF
MILANO. THE AREA OF THE FIRE IS SOUTH OF
HIGHWAY 36 ACROSS
THE RAILROAD TRACKS IN THE AREA OF
ELEVATION. |
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