A morning explosion at a San Jacinto chemical plant shook several nearby residents up on Wednesday.
A number of residents who live in Shepherd, near the Sound Resource Solutions plant where the explosion happened, are still without electricity inSeveral residents who almost share a backyard with the business say their electricity went out just minutes after the explosion, and a host of other issues followed, such as thick smoke, and a chemical odor hovering over their homes. They say they feared the flames would soon follow.
"We were more afraid it would get our deer, because that's our livelihood. That's how we make a living. If something were to happen to them, we wouldn't have the house. I could see flames just over top of the trees. That's why we thought man this is getting really close to us," McMaster explains. **VIDEO COVERAGE FROM EARLIER IN THE DAY** Residents are being asked to shelter in place after a fire at a plant in Shepherd. A 5-mile shelter-in-place was ordered.
"It sounded a lot like thunder and the plume got very dark. We live probably, what a mile through the woods, not even that. Yeah, we're pretty close," adds husband and wife Jason and Shelly Bland, who say the strong chemical odor actually also was a huge issue a day earlier even before the fire.
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