AMITE - Many Roseland residents may be sleeping at the Amite Community Center Friday night after an explosion at Smitty's Oil Supply left them displaced.

"It scared the hell out of me, excuse me for saying that, because as you see, you thought it was the end of the world," Ida Oden said.

Black smoke continues to fill the air in Roseland.

"I was like scared, I didn't know what was going to happen," Makayla Watson said.

Residents living within a one-mile radius of the business are looking for a place to lay their heads.

"I was so nervous, I didn't know what to do or which way to go," Oden said.

Many are still recounting the moments they were told that the explosion had taken place.

"To experience police officers going from door to door, knocking, saying 'you have to leave, you have

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