Representatives of Parker Lord, Crawford County emergency management, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and others returned to the company's chemical facility in the borough on Monday to assess the damage caused by a major fire and explosion Sunday morning.

As giant flames stretched towards the sky and thick, black smoke billowed over East Akron on the afternoon of Sept. 5, 2024, Anthony Anderson was worried.

At least 13 people were injured after a massive industrial fire led to an explosion at the Parker LORD Corporation facility in Saegertown, Crawford County, on Sunday morning, Feb. 9. Fire officials were called to the chemical plant along South Street around 10:30 a.

An explosion at a manufacturing plant in Saegertown, Pennsylvania, sends at least 13 people, including six firefighters, to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. No word yet on the cause of the explosion.