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Pipeline explosion in Jessieville, Arkansas on Wednesday, October 4, 2023. A massive fire sparked by the eruption and explosion of a gas pipeline in Garland County has caused a mile-wide evacuation of the area Wednesday evening.
According to the Arkansas Division of Emergency Management, the explosion happened at 1405 Highway 298 in Jessieville, about 75 miles west of Little Rock.Evacuations in a one-mile radius from the explosion site were ordered by authorities. A shelter was established at the Jessieville High School safe room for evacuees needing a place to stay. "I just got the call that everybody was evacuating so I rushed home," Jamie Caldwell, who lives near the site of the explosion said. "I tried to get home and they had 298 blocked off. Now they're allowing us to go home, so that's good." Caldwell well says he's confident that the fire will stay away from his home - which is about six miles away from the explosion site. The sheriff's office said they first received word of a primary and secondary explosion of the Enable Gas-owned pipeline around 4:45 p.m. The fire plume reached as high as 300 feet tall at its highest point, the sheriff's office said. The fire burned approximately two acres of wooded area around where the rupture occurred, they added.The cause of the pipeline rupture is unknown at this time.
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