“You work a job and then you have to come home to this, and you can’t even stay in the place where you rent,” said Wendell Stone who lives near the Givaudan factory.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Neighbors in Louisville’s Clifton neighborhood recalled the horrific moment the Givaudan Factory on Payne Street exploded in their backyards Tuesday.
“I didn’t know if it was thunder, real loud thunder, I mean it was just so loud,” said Jane Fitzgerald, who lives a few houses away from the factory’s entrance. “It was scary. Very scary.”
Fitzgerald was sitting on her front porch when the explosion occurred. She showed WHAS11 around her home where one of her windows shattered. It’s the same window that also shattered when a different explosion took place at the factory in 2003.
“I told my boys if they blow me up they need to sue them,” Fitzgerald said.
Her neighbor did not want to speak publicly but shared doorbell camera footage …