Burning facility could cause "one of the worst explosions in U.S. history"

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The fire broke out at about 6:30 p.m. on Monday at the Winston Weaver Company Fertilizer plant in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. No injuries have been reported and all employees are accounted for, officials said.
According to Mayo, there were nearly 600 tons of ammonium nitrate and 5,000 tons of finished fertilizer at the facility.
At high temperatures, ammonium nitrate can create toxic nitrogen oxide and ammonia and can cause an explosion. It is the chemical compound behind the deadly 2020 Beirut port explosion and a 2013 blast at a fertilizer plant in Texas that killed 14 people and injured 200 others.
Unpredictability and complex nature of the compound has led crews to err on the side of caution. On Tuesday, officials estimated a 36-hour window where firefighters would wait to see how the burning plant's chemicals reacted (Con’d)
…and potentially decrease the fire's danger zone radius for the near 6,500 people urged to evacuate.
Air quality monitoring devices as well as drone operations have continued to be deployed to assess the fire, but the city's division fire chief Bobby Wade said crews are "not having a lot of improvement on the scene."
North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper pleaded with residents within the fire's danger zone to evacuate if they haven't already. 
"They put other people at risk when they refuse to evacuate," he said.

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