Crude oil tank explodes and burns and shaking Texas island city of Galveston
Published Thursday, February 23, 2012
(KHOU) —A fuel tank burned Thusday evrening after an explosion near the Port of Galveston, City of Galveston spokeswoman Alicia Cahill said.
It all began around 7 p.m. with a loud explosion that could be heard three miles away from a property owned by Texas International Terminals. Thirty-five firefighters from the Galveston Fire Department responded to the three-alarm fire in the 4900 block of Old Port Industrial Road.
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