{"id":597745,"date":"2026-04-21T14:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/597745\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T14:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:56:08","slug":"ottawa-chemical-plant-explosoin-investigation-underway-nbc-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/597745\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa chemical plant explosoin investigation underway \u2013 NBC Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An explosion at a chemical plant in Ottawa Tuesday morning was leading to multiple street closures, with residents being asked to avoid the area and emergency responders on scene. <\/p>\n<p>Just before 8 a.m, the Ottawa Fire Department received a call of an incident at Coogee Chemicals, located at 1501 Titanium Drive. In a Facebook post, the Ottawa Fire Department asked people nearby the avoid the area, describing the scene as &#8220;active.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>According to authorities, the incident was being investigated as an explosion. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Traffic is being detoured around the area,&#8221; the post said. &#8220;Updates will be provided when available.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An executive manager of the plant told NBC Chicago by phone that he was headed over to the location after receiving an alert. <\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t immediately clear if anyone was injured. No further details around the incident were provided. <\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story that will be updated as more information becomes available. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An explosion at a chemical plant in Ottawa Tuesday morning was leading to multiple street closures, with residents&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,5629,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-597745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-illinois","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}