Residents have been ordered to evacuate their homes after a massive chemical fire broke out at a plant in the US state of Illinois.The city fire department ordered a mandatory evacuation for all Rockton residents and businesses within a 1.6-kilometre radius of the Chemtool Inc. plant, police said in a message on Twitter.Rockton Fire Chief Kirk Wilson said the city hopes to avoid "an environmental nightmare" that could occur if any of Chemtool's oil-based lubricants ran off into the nearby Rock River, about 300 metres west.
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