NEWBURGH — Standing outside an emergency management trailer Sunday afternoon just a few hundred feet away from the site of a now-extinguished chemical file in Newburgh, local and federal officials asserted that thus far, an array of tests had detected no "hazardous materials" in the surrounding area.

Nonetheless, the officials said they were working closely with the Warrick County Commission to issue both a local disaster declaration and a local public health emergency and disclosed that a fish kill at Vann Park Pond due to contaminated water runoff could be imminent.

The precise impact of the fire, which engulfed what the Ohio Township Fire Department previously described as "combustable metals" and "numerous hazardous materials," is still being determined, Chief Scott Foreman said duri

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