A helicopter dumped thousands of gallons of river water onto a gutted sugar refinery. It was trying to douse a smoldering fire that burned more deeply than officials first thought.
But after hours of work, officials made plans to bring in a private fire fighter team to put out the blaze at the Imperial Sugar plant, where six workers died and two remained missing.
Officials say the silos were at temperatures up to 4,000 degrees, and the crews were able to reduce the temperature of molten sugar to about 2,800 degrees.
Seventeen workers remained hospitalized today at the Joseph M.
