Community engagement with engineering to address the environmental and public health impacts of a fertilizer fire

On 1 February 2022, six hundred tons of ammonium nitrate (NH _4 NO _3 ), at the Winston Weaver Company in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, ignited and caught fire. Surrounding homes and businesses, within a 1 mile radius, were evacuated while the fertilizer burned for two days. The United States Envir...

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Main Authors: Kyana R L Young, Crystal T Dixon, Amarie Johnson, Aryaman Shukla
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2025-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/adb867
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