Thousands Evacuated in North Carolina: Hazardous gas, fire

by clorenz1 | October 6, 2006 at 09:05 am

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More than half of the town of Apex, about 17,500 people, fled their homes Thursday night and early Friday after a chemical fire spewed a toxic cloud across the town, southwest of Raleigh.

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