Silos with an explosion prevention system can vent out that pressure and fireball, or suppress flames with foam or carbon dioxide. Duct work can also have spark-detection and extinguishing systems ...

As of Tuesday afternoon, more than 45 state and federal officials remain at the site of Friday's deadly incident.

Authorities say the fire and subsequent explosion at a Maine lumber mill that killed a firefighter and injured a dozen other people was accidental and originated at the base of a silo.

Marcus Hook firefighters were called explosion in a manufacturing silo Thursday evening. Units were dispatched to the Alan McIlvain Co. in the 500 block of Market Street about 6:30 p.m. for the report ...

(NewsNation) — A firefighter was killed and multiple people were injured, several critically, after an explosion at a lumber mill in Searsmont, Maine, during efforts to extinguish a fire, authorities ...

Maine lumber mill explosion injures 5, sparks mass casualty response as crews rush to Searsmont and probe cause.

A chemical was burning, and one silo was clearly torched as fire crews tried keeping it from jumping to other silos at the plant.