At least 66 people suffered non-life threatening injuries after a fire and explosion at an ExxonMobil plant in Baytown, Texas. A shelter-in-place advisory has been lifted.
City officials said via Twitter Wednesday afternoon that the advisory had been lifted after monitoring failed to detect"any levels of concern" in the air. Officials said 66 employees and contractors were examined at a health clinic, with some receiving first aid. All were released.The fire had been contained by the evening."We realize the people who live here in Baytown and our surrounding communities are worried," ExxonMobil spokeswoman Natasha Barrett told reporters.
Barrett said the fire began about 11:07 a.m. local time and the precautionary shelter-in-place was issued about 10 minutes later. The blaze is in a unit that contains polypropylene material and Exxon asked that the shelter-in-place order be issued west of the plant and south of the Texas Spur 330 freeway"out of an abundance of caution," the city of Baytown said via Twitter. Flames and smoke rise from the ExxonMobil complex in Baytown, Texas.
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