Fire at ExxonMobil refinery leaves four workers critically injured in Baton Rouge

Four workers were injured in a fire at the ExxonMobil refinery Tuesday and taken to a Baton Rouge hospital's burn unit.

The patients were all in critical condition, Meghan Parrish, a spokeswoman with Baton Rouge General Medical Center, said about two hours after the fire.

Curt Monte, a spokesman for the Baton Rouge Fire Department, said EMS and fire trucks responded to the facility around 4 p.m. after a fire was reported inside the plant. It was extinguished by Exxon's internal fire team, he said.

Mark Northcutt, the plant manager, said the team quickly put out the fire, which he described as occurring inside an "operating unit" in an isolated area. Neither Northcutt nor Monte said they knew the cause of the fire.

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