8 Tanks Now On Fire Houston Texas Area!!!Intensifies Overnight pg11

Crazy, 15 is just gone, to the ground. Hard to tell if 14 has anything left in it.

Timetable for Deer Park blaze indefinite; number of tanks on fire returns to 8

The fire is the southern area of the plant, which according to the company website, has 242 storage tanks. The blaze is in a section that contains 15 tanks and the number of tanks on fire has varied throughout the incident. As of Tuesday afternoon, eight tanks were ablaze, up from five earlier in the day.

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Yikes, so 7 & 10 (both Pygas) likely are two of the new ones on fire. And possibly 13?

13 contains Toluene...

A leak in the naphtha storage tank ignited and flames spread to nearby tanks overnight, ITC reported to a Texas regulator on Monday. Its report did not say what caused the leak to catch fire.

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^^^^^^^ what I have found do far.

The eight include two tanks previously unaffected and two that were reported as being burned out earlier in the day. The remaining four, including the one authorities said was the start of the blaze, were on fire earlier.

Okay so 2 new tanks (7 & 10?)

Officials say the fire that began Sunday at the Intercontinental Terminals Company in Deer Park, southeast of Houston, remains intense enough to create its own micro weather system, causing shifting winds in the area.

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Since assuring residents of the fourth-largest U.S. city on Monday that there were no "immediate health concerns at ground level," the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality hasn't issued any new advisories or assessments. The agency doesn't know when it will issue an update, spokesman Brian McGovern said in a telephone interview on Tuesday.

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The TCEQ is actively monitoring the multi-tank fire at Intercontinental Terminals Co. in Deer Park.

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Last Edited by PINKORCHID- In the Light on 03/19/2019 07:12 PM

thank you for all your help maybe it is getting better

The Black Death

they've all left town.

I don't know, 13 looked pretty far from going last time we could see, but who knows now.

Toluene is pretty flammable stuff. We used to mix it in our gasoline as an octane booster, so you could actually just dump some in your cars gas tank and it'd burn along with the gas in the tank It brought the octane level up for a high compression race engine.

It's also a solvent, fairly common, but it burns pretty fast compared to something like kerosene.

Not getting better my friend. 8 tanks burning. 2 of which are new ones that hadn't yet previously ignited.

The five tanks that hadn't yet previously ignited were:

1 - Base Oil
4 - Base Oil
7 - Pygas
10 - Pygas
13 - Toluene

Last chopper live view showed what looked like 7 & 10 on fire.

None of this is getting better any time soon. :\

Right, scratch my comment about 13. I found an update that said 2 of the 5 tanks that hadn't yet ignited now have. I was thinking 3 of the 5 when I posted the above. The Toluene tank (13) seems to be good for now.

A local toxicologist talks about the effects of the large chemical fire in Deer Park


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Hoping the 8 tanks report is old news, there were 8 going earlier after it picked up overnight and that 8 included the lower number tanks which appear to be mostly gone, or in the process of.

If 10 goes up, then it's far more likely that 13 and the rest will go up too, hope that's not the case, if it is, this thing won't burn out anytime soon.

Another, shorter, video from the toxicologist.


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Thread: BREAKING! TANK FIRES... We now know what started the massive chemical storage tank fire in La Porte - a "leak in the manifold" at one of its









Thread: BREAKING! TANK FIRES... We now know what started the massive chemical storage tank fire in La Porte - a "leak in the manifold" at one of its

this graphic shows what is burning, what isn't and what has burned out.

I believe this is pretty new and accurate.

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on this page

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No live feeds anywhere that I can find.

no streams?
hope its because the fire is getting weaker ...

The reporting on this is a cluster fuck because the number of tanks on fire has fluctuated so much. You're clearly paying close attention so I'm gonna try to lay out what I'm seeing as I know you'll understand.

The most recent update of 8 tanks on fire was corrected to 7 tanks (afternoon update today). Which is the most current report on the number of tanks burning.

Had gone up to 8 overnight/early morning, then down to 5 mid-morning and up to 7 as of last report.

The 8 that were on fire overnight/early morning were 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 11, 14 & 15.

By mid-morning 5 were burning. The 5 burning were 5, 8, 11, 14 & 15 (at this point 2, 3 and 6 had burned off).

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So now they say 7 are burning as of the last update. This includes two that hadn't previously ignited which we're speculating are 7 & 10 from that chopper feed. Also includes two of the previously burned off tanks (so out of 2, 3 and 6 two of them are burning again). Includes 8. And the other two it includes are probably 5 and 11.

The blaze is in a section that contains 15 tanks and the number of tanks on fire has varied throughout the incident.

Late Tuesday morning, the number was at five.

At a news conference Tuesday afternoon, ITC officials initially said eight tanks were on fire, then moments later issued a news release saying the number was seven.

The seven includes two tanks previously unaffected (7 & 10?) and two that were reported as being burned out earlier in the day. The remaining three, including the one authorities said was the start of the blaze (8), were on fire earlier.

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So I guess it is 8 lol.

Super helpful link, thank you!!

I'm gonna lay this out again

Damn, what you have to go through to keep the price of oil up theses days!!!

:racist5:

Thanks for putting that good post together.
Also for posting this pic, which I believe you did and which gave all of us an idea of what was burning and where, it was invaluable to me.
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If that graphic can be trusted as true and up to date it looks to me as if:

12 out of 15 tanks in that farm have been involved.

2-8 +11 were burning at the time the graphic was made.
14+15 were burning and have burned out/down.
9+12 were empty and just cooked to melt / collapse.
only tanks 1-10-13 remain intact.

as we said before (Zebra ref lol) it looks like 10 might go.

So far 12 out of 15 tanks in that cluster have either burned down, are burning, or got melted and destroyed.
A bomb run should be so successful.

I think this is a very good indicator of just what can happen when one these tank farms goes up in smoke.
Pretty much everything in a farm / cluster is going to get involved if the tanks are holding flammable petro chems.

Pretty eye opening.

God work to you!

“Anyone who comes in contact with residue/particles from the fire should wash their hands and skin with soap and water for 3 to 5 minutes.

If pets come in contact with the particles, bathe it while wearing gloves.“

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But don’t worry, it’s safe to breathe!

Well let's see. Train wrecking Venezuela, that didn't work.
Opec cutting production, not having the effect it used to, thanks US oil production.
Iran going crazy Ayatollah nuketard, not feeling the fear, sorry.

So what is left....hmmm....left...left....Aha!....LIGHT BULB ON HEAD!!!

Wait for it, it'll be coming.

It's ok to breathe, just don't get it on your hands!

great. i don't have to stop breathing.