Just checking to make sure your house didn't burn down while you were in Austin.
MM is Deer Park Burning Down?
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A lot of people are asking for an update on the tank farm fire, so here it goes:
As of about 11:10pm Sunday
• It’s not looking good.
•12 tanks are on fire.
•There’s radio talk about concern that the structure of the tanks could collapse from the heat. That would be a catastrophe.
•There are 56 pieces of equipment from every surrounding agency and some from far away. More are coming.
Please please please pray for all involved.
I live about five miles from ITC. Hopefully they won't order a mandatory evacuation.
As of about 11:10pm Sunday
• It’s not looking good.
•12 tanks are on fire.
•There’s radio talk about concern that the structure of the tanks could collapse from the heat. That would be a catastrophe.
•There are 56 pieces of equipment from every surrounding agency and some from far away. More are coming.
Please please please pray for all involved.
I live about five miles from ITC. Hopefully they won't order a mandatory evacuation.
Six more tanks
WATCH LIVE: Flames spread to 6 more tanks at ITC Deer Park plant | Mandatory shelter-in-place lifted https://abc13.com/5202297/
WATCH LIVE: Flames spread to 6 more tanks at ITC Deer Park plant | Mandatory shelter-in-place lifted https://abc13.com/5202297/
Deer Park is a subdivision of Houston located about 20 miles to the southeast of it. Deer Park has a population of around 40,000 and is a blue collar community with its infrastructure built around the petrochemical oil and gas refinement industry.
A fire has broken out at one of the terminals that store oil and petroleum byproducts. There is a massive tank battery with gigantic storage tanks filled with very flammable substances.
One of those tanks caught on fire and the fire has spread to several more of these building sized tanks.
What is the "treatment" for this type of fire? Prayers to those who live in that area as well as the 1st responders
They're saying that it may burn for a few days until it burns itself out. There is no way to stop the feed supporting the fire. They are using foam to try to suppress the fire and are putting water on other tanks to keep them as cool as possible to try to keep them from igniting. Right now the wind is out of the east, which is helping to push the smoke eastward from Deer Park. If the wind were to shift out of the north, that would not be good.
MM I know you’re safe but there’s always an open room at my place if needed
Pretty impressive those tanks can withstand the heat. One would think the heat would have already compromised the integrity of those tanks
If the tanks was made in Oklahoma then they would a melted 10 mins after fire started.... They are good Texas engineered tanks
If you look closely at the stil pics of those tanks you can clearly see the tag says made in China. It’s blurry but it’s there
Well, it started out as one tank on fire. Now it's spread to six or seven on fire.
It was just reported that they have it down one tank on fire and one tank is simmering. The smoke cloud is much smaller now that it has been since Sunday.
That city needs to get together and throw the biggest party possible for those fire fighters. Getting something like this under control must have been monumental task.
That is the truth! The guys on the plant emergency response teams are trained for fires like this. They worked many long hours, many of them up 24 hours, and with little rest. They did the best that they could, given the circumstances of the feed from very flammable materials.
Hats off to those who battled the fire at ITC and won!!
I left Wednesday morning for a meeting in Dallas today. I toured The Star on Wednesday afternoon. That place is AMAZING and is a whole 'nother conversation! The timing of my trip was good due to what all has happened at ITC and the shelter in place this morning. My kids left town to go stay at our lake house in Livingston for a few days. I'll be back home on Friday.
Happening now
HAPPENING NOW: ITC advises industrial neighbors and the Texas Battleship Monument State Park consider taking shelter in place precautions after a portion of the tank farm containment wall containing the product has partially collapsed. No shelter in place for the city limits.
http://www.fox26houston.com/news/it...2TqIF1W-tF-Me06lgMUWo16nAEJXisSMHp3eAawNoCmhs
HAPPENING NOW: ITC advises industrial neighbors and the Texas Battleship Monument State Park consider taking shelter in place precautions after a portion of the tank farm containment wall containing the product has partially collapsed. No shelter in place for the city limits.
http://www.fox26houston.com/news/it...2TqIF1W-tF-Me06lgMUWo16nAEJXisSMHp3eAawNoCmhs
Glad you're safe. Tell us more about this lake house.
He's got 3 Caretakers that look like Half Murry and half Riley take care of the place for him, Playing James Bond now are we Bell?
