A large fire south of the Wisconsin border is still burning more than a day later. On Monday, Illinois fire officials called in reinforcements to fight the chemical fire at a plant in Rockton, Illinois.
Multiple departments from Walworth County, including the City of Delavan Fire Department, answered. Four firefighters from Delavan responded to the scene, which is 27 miles away. They got the call around 8:20 a.m. Monday morning and returned to Delavan around 7:30 p.m.
They described hearing several explosions as they battled the fire and said they had never seen such large mushroom clouds.
"All the way down there, the plume was getting bigger and bigger and bigger. And we're like, 'Oh my god how big is this place?' and so we started Googling on the way. And it's not like anything I've ever seen before in my life," said Delavan Fire Capt. John O'Neill.