Large Plant Fire in Mont Belvieu

[TalkingDog]

Source: Fox News Houston

A fire has been reported at a petrochemical plant in Mont Belvieu, about 35 miles east of Houston.

The fire was reported at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Enterprise Products facility. According to its website, Enterprise Products is a petrochemical company.

SkyFox is over the scene.

Witnesses say the heat is intense and trucks in a nearby parking lot exploded as a result. Other callers to FOX 26 News report having heard explosions.

Read more: http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/news/local/110208-fire-reported-at-petrochemical-plant-in-mont-belvieu

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petrochemical explosions today...

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. bit of info..

Mont Belvieu and Chambers County emergency personnel have responded to an explosion and large fire at Enterprise Products oil and gas facility near Mont Belvieu, a small city 35 miles east of Houston.

No further details were available from local law enforcement agencies.

Houston-based Enterprise is one of the country's largest shippers and processors of natural gas in, including 49,100 miles of onshore and offshore pipelines.

Developing story, details to follow
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7418224.html

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Three people missing

and let me tell you, those are real nightmares for fire responders.

It is what the hell is in the mix in the air?

[Purveyor]

3. IIRC, Mont Belvieu sits atop huge underground storage caverans filled with nat gas. eom

[AnneD]

5. It is a big...

petrochemical processing area, like Pasadena, Texas. Every since the Texas City disaster, we are very careful about our refinaries. Old timers still talk about that oneIt is a deal with the devil if you ask me.

http://www.local1259iaff.org/disaster.html

[TBF]

4. Photo from front page of Chron

think we'll stay inside today. :(