West Storage Facility News Today

Lets check once more on the fire burning in texas. this is a company that manufactures additives for fuel. you can see tremendous flames rising up from the ground there. the police department there has told cnn there are no reports of of anyone injured. you can clearly see theyve moved a lot of people some distance away. these images show what it was looking like earlier when it was really boiling away. again, no reports of injuries, no reports of threats to anyone apparently outside of this fac...

Fire at our west storage facility at our mont belveiu complex. we currently have our personnel on site, our mutual aid, part of a mutual aid group, that are fully trained to deal with these types of situations, and they are in the process of bringing the situation -- or trying to control the fire. were also in the process of trying to make sure all of the workers are accounted for. there still is one person who has not been confirmed -- who has been accounted for, although he was seen leaving th...

Time or an hour earlier local time. and you can see that it appears that there is the possibility for it to spread. thats vehicles you can see burning on the ground there. za exactly how powerful the explosion was at the time were waiting to hear. again, we do not know of any reports of injuries or possibly people missing that were working at this facility that again produces gasoline additives. you can see theyre beginning to -- well, work on launching water on to this fire. this at this point ...

Latest on the situation in your city? >> all ive been told -- im not there right now -- is theres a tank explosion from enterprise west storage. >> have you seen or can you see in any way what is boiling up there? >> i just -- i can see the flames from where im at, and thats it. >> what do we know as far as did you have to evacuate or are there any evacuation orders that are likely to go out. >> where this location is is on the west size of the city so my chief of police has not notified me of o...

Liquids, which are basically what is in the -- when you drill for natural gas, the liquids that come out of the ground. what this facility does is store those and when they come out the ground they basically vaporize and are burned off. so theyre no danger to the public or environmental issues to be concerned with. >> whats the plan of action from here? do you simply let it burn out? or is it something you try to go in and extinguish? >> well, actually were doing -- thats what were evaluating ri...

Again those images coming to us out of mt. bellevue, texas. this is a fire that has broken out at a facility that manufacturers additives for fuels. and you can see that its incredible intense, flames literally boiling out of that facility there. theres also a very thick cloud of of -- column of smoke rising into the air. this happened about 12:45 eastern time, 11 friext local time. the good news at least from speaking with the police there, they say there are no injuries and it appears there ar...

Kprc. another affiliate helping us understand whats going on. ktrk. this is in mt. bellevue, texas. there was an explosion at this facility around 11:45 local time. that would have been 12:45 eastern time. and this facility is identified as enterprise products and we are told that they make gasoline additives, which would explain why there is that tremendous amount of flame, fire and as you can see that pillar of very, very dark smoke rising into the air. because that would be all very highly fl...

Want to get you back to our breaking news, back to this fire here in texas. this is mont belvieu, just about 30 miles due east of houston. this thing is still raging some 2 1/2 hours after the initial explosions around noon central time. this is the enterprise products plant. i want you to listen to the company spokesperson, rick rainey, giving an update. >> shortly after noon our time, central time, today we experienced a fire at our west storage facility at our mont belvieu, texas, complex. th...

That we can stop the flow of product into the complex through the various pipelines that feed the facility. >> mr. rainey, let me ask you this. you clarified the situation regarding the people unaccounted for. the mayor said there were three. you say its only one person now. everyone else has been accounted for? >> there is one person that we are still trying to account for. thats what we have currently on our -- as -- in our search of the individuals that were on site that we knew of at the tim...

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