State News: Damage to Liberal Plant Could Top One Million
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Liberal, KS (westernkansasnews.com) Fire investigators say damaged from the Arkalon plant in Liberal could reach one million dollars. No one was injured in the explosion that came from the plant around 7 pm Sunday. Firefighters battled the fire all night. Fire chief Mike Rice says three walls and side paneling were blown off in the explosion. Officials trace the cause of the accident to a combustion chamber in the corn dryer of the building.
Story written from information obtained by the Associated Press