Update: Residents of Deer Park in the Houston-area were issued a shelter-in-place advisory Thursday after the petrochemical plant fire that burned for days released high levels of volatile organic compounds into the air. By Collin Eaton and Erwin Seba HOUSTON, March 20 (Reuters) – State and local...
By Gary McWilliams HOUSTON, March 19 (Reuters) – A raging fire at a petrochemical storage terminal near Houston spread to two more massive tanks after firefighting water pumps stopped working for six hours, the company said on Tuesday. The blaze at Intercontinental Terminals Co (ITC) in Deer Park,...
HOUSTON, March 18 (Reuters) – A fire at a fuels storage company along the Houston Ship Channel continued to burn on Monday, spreading to eight massive petrochemical storage tanks, shutting schools in two nearby communities. The fire, which sent a plume of black smoke across the city’s eastern half...
An estimated 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel was spilled into the water, during fuel transfer operations of a dredge at the Houston Ship Channel, near Buffalo Bayou, on Wednesday morning, the US Coast Guard informed.
The US Coast Guard Sector Houston-Galveston watchstanders received a report from the captain of the dredge ‘Susan Crosby’ that during a fuel transfer the vessel’s tank overflowed and released an estimated 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel, just north of City Dock 45.
The source of the spill...
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