Woke up at 2:45 am to the loudest bang I've ever heard and the house shaking. It stopped after about 3 seconds and I waited for either the baby to start wailing, or the ceiling to cave in or both. Neither happened. About 10 minutes later, Chris's friend called from Danvers and asked if we had felt it too. He said that he could see flames shooting up behind the trees about a quarter mile away from his house. I ran outside and from the back yard I could see a huge orange glow about a mile away and black smoke billowing up. We thought a plane had crashed.
It turned out to be an explosion that levelled a chemical plant that makes inks and solvents. It was a huge relief to find out that no one had been killed. It was almost impossible to go back to sleep not knowing what was going on and not knowing how bad the fire was or where it was.
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