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28 lip 2022 · According to a story in the Amarillo Globe-Times, a tank of pentane exploded while firefighters are fighting a fire on the tank farm. The names of the firefighters killed that day are engraved on the firefighters' memorial at the state capitol in Austin.
28 lip 2010 · On July 29, 1956, 19 firefighters were killed while battling a fire at the Shamrock Oil Refinery in northern Texas. This incident caused the fourth largest loss of firefighter lives in U.S....
DUMAS, Tex., July 29--Four huge petroleum tanks exploded near here today, enveloping nineteen men in a wall of intensely hot flame and killing them instantly. Thirty-two persons were in...
29 lip 2015 · On July 29, 1956, the Sunday morning silence of Dumas, Sunray and most of the northern Panhandle was broken with an explosion and fire that killed 19 firefighters. The blast was at what was then called Shamrock Oil and Gas Refinery (now Valero) between Dumas and Sunray in Moore County north of Amarillo.
24 maj 2023 · The three large refinery and petrochemical facilities along the Texas Gulf Coast that caught fire this month had long track records of environmental compliance problems, including a combined 5,469 violations over a decade but few penalties, according to state records.
20 wrz 2024 · DEER PARK, Texas (AP) — A pipeline fire that burned in a Houston suburb for four days finally went out Thursday as authorities announced a criminal investigation into the blaze that had roared into a towering flame, forcing neighborhoods to evacuate and melting parts of nearby cars.
14 sty 2024 · MCMULLEN COUNTY, Texas — Firefighters were able to contain a small fire Saturday at a saltwater disposal facility in McMullen County. First responders worked to remove tanks, which...
