Still-smoldering Indiana recycling plant fire spewing asbestos, other toxins more than a mile away

The still-smoldering fire at an Indiana recycling plant that triggered a massive evacuation is spewing carcinogens more than a mile away, officials said Friday.

The Environmental Protection Agency said it found samples of “asbestos-containing” debris that was ejected about a mile-and-a-half from the Richmond recycling plant, where an inferno has been burning since Tuesday.

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