Emergency responders from multiple towns in and around Waldo County are responding to a fire and possible explosion at a Searsmont lumber mill.
Route 131 has been closed by police at the intersection of School Street and Ghent Road. A Bangor Daily News reporter at the scene said there is a large column of black smoke filling the sky above the lumber mill. Emergency responders were asked to notify people living in the area of a gas leak, according to dispatchers.
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