Conway Residents Back Home After Blast

By: Import User

Updated: January 7, 2009

Conway families, displaced by Tuesday`s chemical blast at the Detco plant, moved back home Friday after officials ruled the area safe. Residents were kept away pending air and water quality tests. But even after the tests came back negative, officals kept families away as a precautionary measure. Most of the residents spent three nights in shelters. Six of the mobile homes weren`t able to be salvaged. Those residents were moved to other trailers in the area.

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