A blast around 1 a.m. (2 a.m. ET) Wednesday at the TPC Group plant caused extensive damage across the small city of Port Neches and left at least three employees injured, authorities said. The second explosion occurred about 12 hours later. Officials have issued a mandatory evacuation within a 4-mile radius of plant because of the potential of more explosions.
Officials are focused on containment and keeping surrounding storage tanks cool, according to Troy Monk, director of health safety and security for TPC Group, which operates the Port Neches manufacturing plant about 90 miles east of Houston.
The next priorities will be putting out the fire, then investigating its cause, he said in a press briefing.
"Fire crews continue to battle the blaze," said Jefferson County Sheriff's Captain Crystal Holmes told CNN in an interview. "Right now it's contained and not going anywhere but it's not under control."
"What a damned mess," Berka wrote on Twitter. "We're clearing out."
Berka told CNN her co-worker, who lives near the plant, had her front door blown off earlier in the morning before evacuating.
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Well, there was a cantina closing in Harlingen last week. Doomsday Blogger Montoya apparently did not hear about that one. Get a life, Juan.
Uh, how far is Port Neches from Brownsville? Real faaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrr.
Really hope all that Galveston, port neches water contamination doesn't flow towards our wild life of SPI @ 10:00 pm
Hope is not the answer kick them out same here with LNG and the firecracker on boca chica
'Teacher of the Year' at Texas High School Allegedly Sexually Abused Her Student
We seem to get hit from all sides, school, work, environment, taxes, fines are the highest allowable by the state, traffic jams galore, pot holes, flooding, rockets blowing up and killing and poisoning the environment, corruption is inherited and culturally ingrained.
WHEN IS THIS GOING TO STOP!!!!
Residents flee "FOURTH" major Texas petrochemical fire this year.
CAN YOU PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT THIS IS THE "FOURTH" EXPLOSION AND COMING HERE VERY SOON!
BUT ITS OK WE HAVE ALL THOSE BEER AND OTHER STUPID NAMED FESTIVALS WHICH ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN EXPLOSIONS AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL CATASTROPHES.
Coming soon to the Brownsville-PI-SPI area. Get your tickets now.
A second explosion in the afternoon propelled a tower into the air "like a missile" toward the nearby Port Neches-Groves High School
A third blast followed soon after Thousands of people continued to be evacuated the night before Thanksgiving, the Times reports.
The big picture: Concerns have been raised about "the adequacy of health and safety regulations as well as the environmental effects from the accidents," after a string of fires and explosions at chemical plants in recent years
an April fire at a Houston chemical facility that killed one person dead and critically wounded two others
a petrochemical plant blaze in March just outside the Houston metropolitan area that "burned for days
a 2017 explosion during a tropical depression at a plant in Crosby, northeast of Houston
a deadly blast at a West, Texas, fertilizer plant in 2013.
ARE WE NEXT??? Brownsville texas chemical plants explodes and wipes out the whole town. Can become a reality and thanks to the mindless self service elected officials.
Our future.
9:45 and 10:00pm.
Well, there is a douche PIZZA place downtown Brownsville that makes HOMEMADE CHEESE FROM POWDERED MiLK. Apparently you know about that one. You know too much
Spacex will not succeed. Complete failure.
Well said, "OUR FUTURE".
Puerto Nachas les queda el nombre muy bueno
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