Deer Park, Texas, police confirmed that human remains were recovered from a vehicle that crashed into a natural gas liquids pipeline Monday, triggering a fire that continues to burn.
“Medical examiners will now begin working through their identification process, which will take some time,” according to a posted by the Houston suburb.
The blast and fire involved an above-ground valve station on a 20-inch (51-centimeter) pipeline operated by Energy Transfer LP. The adjacent municipality La Porte on X that the fire is expected to be extinguished later Thursday, upon completion of infrastructure repairs.
La Porte 鈥� an industrial suburb roughly 25 miles east of downtown Houston 鈥� has the largest concentration of chemical plants in the world. Natural gas liquids are components of the gas stream such as ethane, propane and butane.
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