Overview

• Officials kept a mandatory one-mile radius cleared around the facility with no timeline for lifting the order as the incident remained active into Saturday.
• More than 35 agencies responded to fight the fire and manage hazards at the automotive-fluids plant north of Roseland.
• LDEQ and the EPA deployed air-monitoring teams, and initial readings were reported as zero with continued monitoring planned.
• Highway 51 at Highway 10 remained closed and residents were urged to avoid the area and use alternate routes.
• Roseland Montessori School was evacuated by bus to a reunification site, and authorities reported no injuries as the cause of the blasts remained under investigation.