Ryan Meador
An explosion reportedly touched off a fire at a Louisiana petrochemical plant, but police say they aren't sure yet how many people might have been hurt.
The fire started Thursday morning at The Williams Companies factory in Geismar, about 20 miles southeast of Baton Rouge, Louisiana State Police Capt. Doug Cain says.
Cain says he's seen ambulances taking "a couple of people from the plant," according to The Associated Press.
The plant can produce 1.35 billion pounds of ethylene and 90 million pounds of polymer grade propylene a year, according to the company's website. Both ethylene and propylene are intermediates used to produce other chemical and plastic products.
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