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Officials order cleanup at Iowa plant rocked by explosion

FILE - Firefighters work to control a blaze at an agricultural plant Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022, in Marengo, Iowa. State officials on Friday, Dec. 16, ordered the C6-Zero company to clean up and stabilize its east-central Iowa shingle recycling plant where an explosion and fire last week that injured around a dozen people and forced the evacuation of nearby homes. (Joseph Cress/Iowa City Press-Citizen via AP, File)

FILE - Smoke wafts over the horizon from the fire at a grain elevator Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022, in Marengo, Iowa. State officials on Friday, Dec. 16, ordered the C6-Zero company to clean up and stabilize its east-central Iowa shingle recycling plant where an explosion and fire last week that injured around a dozen people and forced the evacuation of nearby homes. (Joseph Cress/Iowa City Press-Citizen via AP, File)

FILE - Firefighters work to control a blaze at a grain elevator, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022, in Marengo, Iowa. State officials on Friday, Dec. 16, ordered the C6-Zero company to clean up and stabilize its east-central Iowa shingle recycling plant where an explosion and fire last week that injured around a dozen people and forced the evacuation of nearby homes. (Joseph Cress/Iowa City Press-Citizen via AP, File)

Officials order cleanup at Iowa plant rocked by explosion