Connecticut Recycling Plant Fire Under Control One Day Later

One day after a fire broke out at a Connecticut waste and recycling plant, officials say the blaze is under control.

Jan 30th, 2018

A day after a massive fire struck a Connecticut waste and recycling plant, officials say the blaze is under control. There were no injuries in the fire that destroyed a 100,000-square-foot building at the Willimantic Waste Paper Company in Connecticut.

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38,000 Pairs Burn at Luxury Shoe Factory

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Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, left, at a cabinet meeting at his official residence in Tokyo, April 12, 2021.

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In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, rescue workers stand near a banner which reads: 'Home is waiting for your region' at the entrance to a flooded coal mine.

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Rescue efforts are ongoing.

In this March 9, 2020, file photo, Tesla and SpaceX Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition in Washington. Musk has tweeted his way into trouble with another federal agency, this time the National Labor Relations Board. The board on Thursday, March 25, 2021 found that a Musk tweet in May of 2018 unlawfully threatened employees with loss of stock options if they decided to be represented by a union. Board members ordered Tesla to make Musk delete the tweet and stop threatening employees with loss of benefits for supporting a labor organization.

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