By Dylan Lovan and Rebecca Reynolds
Associated Press
LOUISVILLE, Ky. 鈥� At least 11 employees were taken to hospitals and residents were urged to shelter in place after an explosion at a Louisville, Kentucky, business on Tuesday.
News outlets reported that neighbors heard what sounded like an explosion coming from a business that manufactures ingredients for soft drinks. Overhead news video footage showed an industrial building with a large hole in its roof.
鈥淭he cause at this point of the explosion is unknown,鈥� said Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg. No one died in the explosion, he said.
The Louisville Fire Department said in a post on the social platform X that multiple agencies were responding to a 鈥渓arge-scale incident.鈥�
HAPPENING NOW! LFD and Multiple LMG agencies on scene of a large scale incident in the 1900 Block of Payne St.
— Louisville Fire Dept (@loukyfire)
Media staging is being set up at St. Frances of Rome, 2119 Payne St.
Louisville Metro Emergency Services urged people within a mile of the business to shelter in place.
