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Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Sugar-refinery explosion: silos come down

More clean-up from the Imperial Sugar refinery explosion near Savannah is underway today. Two damaged storage silos will come down. Sugar dust beneath the silos ignited like gunpowder to cause the February explosion. Thirteen people died and dozens were injured. New silos are scheduled to be built in spring of next year.

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