Toledo chemical tank rupture forces Michigan school closures near border

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Two Michigan school districts were closed Wednesday amid a shelter-in-place order in Toledo, Ohio, where a ruptured chemical tank billowed a white plume into the air and forced evacuations due to the potentially toxic leak and the possibility of an explosion.

More than 50,000 people were advised to stay indoors as a precaution within a 3-mile radius that included neighborhoods along the Lake Erie shoreline and stretched just across the state line into Michigan…

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