Fallout from a petrochemical fire outside Houston continued for a sixth day on S...
FILE PHOTO: Smoke covers the Houston area from a fire burning at the Intercontinental Terminals Company in Deer Park, east of Houston, Texas, U.S., March 18, 2019. Michael Sahrman/Handout via REUTERS
A fire that burned for three days broke out last Sunday at Mitsui & Co’s Intercontinental Terminals Co site in Deer Park, Texas. It damaged or destroyed 11 giant tanks each holding up to 3 million gallons of fuels used to make gasoline and plastics. The leak and fire prompted the U.S. Coast Guard to close a portion of the waterway connecting Houston to the Gulf of Mexico.
ITC repaired early on Saturday a 10-foot wide breach in a containment wall that had allowed chemicals to escape the site and had spread fire outside the facility for a time on Friday, a spokesman said. ITC said on Saturday it hoped to restart efforts to remove the fuels but could not say when they could begin.
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