Fire out at western Wyoming gas plant

This image provided by Rachel Anderson shows officials at the site of an explosion and fire at a natural gas processing facility and major national pipeline hub, Wednesday, April 23, 2014, in Opal, Wyo. Officials said there are no reports of injuries and the residents of Opal have been evacuated to an area about 3 miles outside the town as a precaution. Opal has about 95 residents and is about 100 miles northeast of Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rachel Anderson)

OPAL, Wyo. (AP) — A fire at a western Wyoming natural gas processing plant has finally burned out after five days.

A spokesman for Tulsa, Okla.-based Williams Partners says the fire was out at about 4:30 p.m. Monday.

The fire had been burning since an April 23 explosion at the facility near the small community of Opal (oh-PAL’).

No one was hurt in the explosion and fire, which prompted the evacuation of the town’s 95 residents for a day.

Williams Partners spokesman George Angerbauer says investigators are trying to determine what caused the explosion. He says it remains unknown when the plant will be operational, but he noted that the incident involved only one of four processing facilities at the site.

The plant processes gas produced from western Wyoming and northern Utah wells.

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