Early morning explosion at Regina's Co-Op refinery rocks homes, rattles nerves

CBC News

· Posted: Mar 25, 2025 9:10 AM EDT | Last Updated: 7 minutes ago

People surviving successful Regina's northbound extremity were awoken aboriginal this greeting by an detonation astatine Regina's Consumers' Cooperative Refinery main works that shook homes arsenic acold arsenic 2 kilometres away.

The detonation happened astatine astir 4:45 a.m. CST Tuesday adjacent gross fig 3 connected 9th Ave. N near McDonald Street.

Emergency alarm horns were activated and could beryllium heard crossed the northbound extremity of the metropolis fro much than 15 minutes.

There's nary connection yet connected what caused the blast, but a occurrence was inactive burning astatine six a.m CST.

A spokesperson for the Regina Fire Department says they were called successful to assistance the refinery's firefighters and that nary structures were progressive successful the explosion.

The Regina occurrence section says aft the archetypal detonation crews were burning disconnected other merchandise successful the lines, but nary precocious unit lines were progressive successful the fire.

As of six a.m. CST determination were nary injuries reported successful the blast.