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Police said the leak was at a facility run by Biolab, which manufactures chemicals used in household cleaners such as Comet bleach scrub and chlorine powder for pools. Nearby residents were told to close their doors and windows and turn off air conditioners, and the fire smoldered into the night. State and federal aircraft headed into the skies over the coast to look for signs of any other industrial damage. The fatalities included a year-old girl and a year-old man who died when trees fell on their homes in Louisiana, as well as a year-old man who died of carbon monoxide poisoning from a generator inside his residence. Another man drowned in a boat that sank during the storm, authorities said. No deaths had been confirmed in Texas, which Republican Gov. Chevellce Dunn considered herself among the fortunate after a night spent huddling on a sofa with her son, daughter and four nieces and nephews as winds rocked their home in Orange, Texas. President Donald Trump planned to visit the Gulf Coast this weekend to tour the damage. More than , coastal residents evacuated under the shadow of a coronavirus pandemic and calls for masks and social distancing to combat its spread. It was the largest evacuation order since the pandemic began and many people followed it, filling hotels and sleeping in cars. Although not everyone fled from the coast, officials credited those who did leave for minimizing the loss of life. Edwards said the storm surge wound up in the range of 9 feet to 12 feet — still bad, but far from the worst forecast. He was hopeful damaged homes could quickly be made habitable. The priority, Edwards said, was search and rescue, followed by efforts to find hotel or motel rooms for those unable to stay in their homes. Women's Clothing to Fit Every Size The Renegade: Robert Downey Sr. Here's a Strategy Daniel L. The Eddy Clarence L. The Woman in White Wilkie Collins. The Torch Bearer I. Do You Know This Word? Try Now. Officials in both Louisiana and Texas had issued the gravest of warnings about the storm, which was among the strongest ever to hit the United States and tied for the strongest ever to hit Louisiana, according to data compiled by Philip Klotzbach, a research scientist at Colorado State University who studies hurricanes. At the peak, more than 1. He warned of the risks that came with fleeing a storm while Covid was still a serious threat. President Trump said he would visit Texas and Louisiana this weekend. Michael Treadway had tree limbs jabbed into his roof. Trees crushing what used to be his carport. Moss Bluff, La. Fierce winds from Hurricane Laura ripped away roofs and shattered windows, but the trees did some of the worst damage in this town, about eight miles northeast of hard-hit Lake Charles. Trees toppled onto homes, or just nicked them. They came down in front of red-brick banks and outside of Sam Houston High School. Houses with minor damage sat across the street from houses pummeled by trees. Unscathed churches and stores were down the street from churches and stores with broken windows and collapsed walls. Treadway, a game warden and senior agent with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, said he had worried that his decades-old house would not survive Laura. But it was. And as he worked up on the roof nailing down blue tarps, he had help — from two fellow game wardens. Senior Agent Joel Cromp and Sgt. Austin Arteaga were called in from another wildlife region to do search-and-rescue work. There were ultimately few rescues needed, so after their shift was over, they drove to Mr. They climbed up on the roof using a ladder on the bed of a pickup truck. It barely missed. It destroyed her home. So she bought a manufactured home after she was assured it would survive a Category 3 hurricane. Rice said of those who sold her the manufactured home. Rice had evacuated on Tuesday before Laura hit and went to stay with her daughter in Baton Rouge. She nervously called her neighbors on Thursday morning to ask about her house. They told her it was fine, and still standing. Fire broke out Thursday morning at a chemical plant in Westlake, La. Mayor Robert Hardey of Westlake said the fire was burning at a plant operated by BioLab, a subsidiary of Kik Custom Products, which makes cleaners, antifreeze and other chemical products. Daniel Hoadley, a spokesman for the parent company, confirmed in a statement that the fire was the result of storm damage. A chlorine leak from the BioLab facility appeared to have started the fire. Colonel Kevin W. Reeves said, which began at some point during the course of the storm. Data from the Environmental Protection Agency shows that the BioLab site, which specializes in making pool and spa cleaning products, stores large amounts of chlorine, which can pose a fire and explosion risk. The people living closest to these concentrations of industries are typically the poorest, and tend to be communities of color: places like the Westside neighborhood of Port Arthur, Texas, and Mossville, La. Bullard, a professor of urban planning and environmental policy at Texas Southern University and co-chair of the Black Environmental Justice Network , an advocacy group devoted to addressing harm caused by systemic racism. Farther east, the city of Orange has dozens of chemical plants. The Lake Charles area is home to a number of major chemical plants, including the Sasol Chemicals complex, owned by a South African company, and the BioLab plant that caught fire Thursday. The Port Arthur refinery has a foot levee, but the storm surge forecast for Laura ranged as high as 20 feet for parts of the nearby Louisiana coast. Many of those plants sit right next to vulnerable communities, like Mossville, a historic Black community founded by an ex-slave. As protests against police violence and white supremacy swept away dozens of longstanding memorials to the Confederacy this summer, a year-old monument on the courthouse lawn in Lake Charles, La. On Thursday, Hurricane Laura tore the statue atop it down. Lewis said on Thursday, until residents turned their attention to preparing for one of the strongest hurricanes ever to hit the region. The monument was the object of anger and protests after the killing of George Floyd , a Black man, by the police in Minneapolis. But two weeks ago, the Calcasieu Parish Police Jury, an elected body that acts like a county board of commissioners and has jurisdiction over the courthouse property, voted 10 to 5 at a special meeting to keep it. Lewis said. The statue has come down several times before — including in a storm, just three years after it was erected — but has always been restored. In it was blown off and repaired, despite protests from some local residents, including a district judge, who turned their backs as the soldier was returned to the pedestal. Was Hurricane Laura actually as powerful and destructive a storm at landfall as predicted? It is surprisingly difficult to answer this question with precision. Storms are rated by their maximum sustained winds, which the National Hurricane Center defines as the average wind speed over a one-minute period. Maximum gusts will be higher, but they last just a few seconds. The center reports that Laura made landfall with maximum sustained winds of miles an hour, at the high end of the Category 4 range. Yet nothing like that was measured on land. The strongest readings were at Lake Charles, La. It goes by the maximum sustained winds anywhere in the storm — but very few locations are actually measured, and measurements taken on land tend to be lower because the solid, bumpy land surface slows the air down, compared with the flat, fluid ocean.