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Energy Transfer is the operator of the pipeline involved in the La Porte fire, which is a 20-inch natural gas liquids pipeline. The company reports the pipeline has been isolated to allow the ...
According to reports from local news station ABC13, the fire spread south under Spencer Highway into the borders of the adjacent city of La Porte, Texas. Video from the area after the explosion ...
Sep. 17—AUSTIN RRC inspectors are on site at the Incident Command of Monday's pipeline fire in the La Porte/Deer Park area. Energy Transfer continues to blow down the remaining gas in the ...
The pipeline is a 20-inch-wide (50-centimeter-wide) conduit that runs for miles through the Houston area. It carries natural gas liquids through Deer Park and La Porte, both of which are southeast of Houston. Authorities evacuated nearly 1,000 homes at one point and ordered people in nearby schools to shelter in place. Officials began letting ...
DEER PARK, Texas (AP) — A pipeline fire that erupted in a suburban Houston neighborhood burned throughout a second day and into the night Tuesday with still no definitive word on when the blaze would finally go out, when nearby residents may be able to return home or why a car drove through a fence and hit a valve before the destructive explosion.
A dramatic pipeline fire continues to light up the sky near Houston, and police say the blaze was started by a car crash. Officials with the City of La Porte Office of Emergency Management crews ...
A portion of a highway near the pipeline would remain closed, officials said. Hundreds of customers lost power. Officials said Wednesday afternoon that only two customers remained without electricity in the Deer Park and La Porte area. Repairs to all of the power distribution lines affected by the fire had been completed.
September 16 – A vehicle drove into an Energy Transfer 20 inch pipeline carrying natural gas liquids exploded in Deer Park, Texas at 9:55 AM, sending flames hundreds of feet into the air and causing a fire that spread to La Porte, Texas. Roads around the fire were closed and nearby San Jacinto College went under a shelter-in-place.