Officials lifted evacuation orders Friday for about 50,000 people on the Texas Gulf Coast, determining a massive fire was finally under control at a chemical plant rocked by two major explosions two days earlier. But the area around the TPC Group plant remained dangerous. Ray Moore and Milton Perio observe the fire consuming TPC Group plant on Wednesday in Port Neches, Texas. There’s still going to be flames visible at night,” said Troy Monk, the director of health safety and security for the TPC Group. The TPC Group plant had been labeled a “high priority” violator by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency after its last inspection in 2017 and had been cited multiple times in recent years for clean air violations.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 29, 2019 21:45 UTC