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Fire reignites at Texas plant that earlier burned for days
Source: Associated Press
Fire reignites at Texas plant that earlier burned for days
By NOMAAN MERCHANT
March 22, 2019
HOUSTON (AP) — Fire reignited Friday at the Houston-area industrial plant where an earlier blaze burned for days and sent plumes of black smoke over much of Southeast Texas.
Large clouds of smoke appeared before 4 p.m. Friday at the Intercontinental Terminals Company facility as a cleanup effort was underway at a tank that had been damaged in the earlier fire extinguished on Wednesday . Company spokesman Dale Samuelsen said the west side of the tank farm had reignited but did not say what caused the blaze.
The site continues to raise health and environmental concerns. Among the chemicals in the plant were benzene, which evaporates quickly and can cause drowsiness, dizziness, rapid heartbeat, and headaches, with worse symptoms at higher levels of exposure.
A containment dike on the property breached earlier Friday, causing unknown chemicals and firefighting foam to spill into the nearby Houston Ship Channel and leading the U.S. Coast Guard to close the channel. The closure stopped traffic on one of the nation’s most important commercial waterways, which links refineries between the Port of Houston and the Gulf of Mexico.
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By NOMAAN MERCHANT
March 22, 2019
HOUSTON (AP) — Fire reignited Friday at the Houston-area industrial plant where an earlier blaze burned for days and sent plumes of black smoke over much of Southeast Texas.
Large clouds of smoke appeared before 4 p.m. Friday at the Intercontinental Terminals Company facility as a cleanup effort was underway at a tank that had been damaged in the earlier fire extinguished on Wednesday . Company spokesman Dale Samuelsen said the west side of the tank farm had reignited but did not say what caused the blaze.
The site continues to raise health and environmental concerns. Among the chemicals in the plant were benzene, which evaporates quickly and can cause drowsiness, dizziness, rapid heartbeat, and headaches, with worse symptoms at higher levels of exposure.
A containment dike on the property breached earlier Friday, causing unknown chemicals and firefighting foam to spill into the nearby Houston Ship Channel and leading the U.S. Coast Guard to close the channel. The closure stopped traffic on one of the nation’s most important commercial waterways, which links refineries between the Port of Houston and the Gulf of Mexico.
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Read more: https://apnews.com/6fd4420cecd240dea79657bc67fb812e
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