East Baton Rouge Parish officials are answering the public’s questions about the lack of notifications from them early Wednesday morning (Feb. 12) as a large fire broke out at ExxonMobil.
WAFB’s Lester Duhé spoke with the director of the Mayor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (MOHSEP), who says they felt they didn’t need to send out an alert that everything was okay because the Exxon refinery had already done so. However, one woman who lives near the plant says she was stuck not knowing what do.
“When you look outside and you see the sky bright as day at 12 o’ clock at night, then you know something has gone wrong,” said Crystal Poray, who lives in north Baton Rouge.