Residents of two Houston-area cities were told to stay indoors on Thursday, and ...
HOUSTON - Residents of two Houston-area cities were told to stay indoors on Thursday, and schools were closed due to air pollution from a petrochemical plant fire, and one city lifted the order at midday after levels of dangerous chemicals abated.
The City of Deer Park, 20 miles east of Houston, had issued a morning shelter-in-place advisory to its 34,000 residents after reports of high levels of benzene or other volatile organic compounds within city limits. The order was lifted at midday, the municipality said on its website. “I’m not worried,” said Lillie Patton, a resident of Pasadena, Texas, one of the communities that closed schools because of danger from benzene fumes. “They’ve taken the necessary precautions. I appreciate they are using their brains and common sense.”
ITC workers were removing fuels from the fire-ravaged site, but a spokeswoman declined to say when the work would be completed. Adam Adams, an EPA official monitoring the work at ITC’s storage facility, said emergency workers could complete removing fuel remaining in the tanks, some of which were exposed to the air, on Thursday.
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