Bruce Tefft
Sat, 17 Feb 2007 07:02:25 -0800
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19 Injured in Texas Refinery Blaze By Associated Press SUNRAY, Texas - An explosion rocked a west Texas refinery Friday, injuring at least 19 people and sparking a blaze that sent a huge black cloud billowing into the sky. Three people with burns were in critical condition Friday night, a nursing supervisor said. Sixteen others were hospitalized, mostly for smoke inhalation, and all but four were released by late Friday, a hospital official said. No fatalities were reported and all employees at the Valero McKee Refinery were accounted for, said Valero Energy Corp. More than 400 workers were evacuated from the Valero McKee Refinery after the explosion, authorities said. Paul Jenkins, fire chief in the nearby community of Dumas, said Valero's fire brigade was fighting the blaze. Although the blaze had subsided substantially, it had not been extinguished late Friday, Valero said in a statement. "The effort has been to isolate the units ... so there's nothing feeding the flames," said Mary Rose Brown, a Valero spokeswoman. The refinery was shut down after the blast, as were pipelines in and out of the facility, the company said. Smoke could be seen from 60 miles away. Valero said the fire was believed to have started at the refinery's "propane deasphalting unit," where fuel is processed at high temperatures. Valero, the largest refiner in North America, operates 17 refineries, 16 in North America and one in Aruba. The McKee refinery, located in Sunray, is one of six in Texas and has a capacity of 170,000 barrels per day. Sunray has a population of about 2,000. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/