Belle Fourche Pipeline Co. estimates that 130,200 gallons of oil spilled into a tributary of the Little Missouri River last week and another 46,200 gallons leaked into a hillside, the North Dakota Department of Health said Monday, Dec. 12.
Two Lower Valley Energy employees were knocked off their feet Monday around 12:30 p.m. after a Sublette County dehydration plant exploded, bursting into flames.
Firefighters responded to a hazmat situation in Center City Philadelphia, where a massive amount of foam covered an entire city block after it leaked from a PECO substation.
Several calls were made to police after 1 p.m. Saturday, reporting explosions inside a building around the 400 block of South Juniper Street.
Crews arrived to the find the fire suppression system had released a large amount of foam.
Investigators are trying to figure out what caused the explosion that destroyed a home in Orange County, with a woman and her dog inside.
A pipeline erupted in flames at about 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Those flames have subsided following an explosion that happened in the middle of a rural field in the 9600 block of Mellon’s Bridge Road.
Emergency crews with the Plano Fire Department, Plano Police Department and Atmos Energy were all investigating a gas leak near the intersection of Spring Creek Parkway and Alma Drive in Plano. The incident happened at around 7:00 a.m. on Thanksgiving morning.
One resident reported a strong odor in the area. Crews detected the leak in underground sewer lines.
Due to the leak, authorities were forced to evacuate about 100 residents from around 79 homes along two streets. A temporary shelter was set up for them, but the incident certainly interrupted their Thanksgiving meal plans.
According to Atmos Energy, crews located the source of the gas leak and eliminated it at about 1:20 p.m. The crews were last seen doing air tests after clamping the leak.
The City of Plano tweeted at approximately 2:40 p.m. that residents were able to return to their homes after being evacuated.
The evacuation has been lifted. Affected families are free to return home and there are no further road closures.
— City of Plano (@cityofplanotx) November 24, 2016
The shelter is located at the Plano Senior Recreation Center, 401 West 16th Street. Lunch is being provided. The city stated on Twitter that the evacuations were made “out of abundance of caution” and that residents would be returned to their homes as soon as possible.
Some of the residents were seen lingering around the scene, bundled up to protect themselves from the chilly temperatures on Thursday morning. Fire crews also shut down the intersection and its surrounding streets
Firefighters are battling a large fire at an onion processing and packaging plant in the Town of Elba Thursday morning.
A chemical plant in Neodesha continues to burn after an explosion injured one person Tuesday morning in the southeast Kansas town.
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