{"id":2574,"date":"2011-11-30T13:34:42","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T19:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=2574"},"modified":"2011-12-01T08:39:46","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T14:39:46","slug":"explosion-and-fire-reported-at-san-antonio-refinery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2011\/11\/30\/explosion-and-fire-reported-at-san-antonio-refinery\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosion and Fire Reported at San Antonio Refinery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=29.347773,-98.460197&amp;num=1&amp;t=h&amp;vpsrc=6&amp;gl=us&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=29.347869,-98.460465&amp;spn=0.002314,0.002816&amp;z=18&amp;output=embed\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"620\" height=\"380\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<small><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-align: left;\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=29.347773,-98.460197&amp;num=1&amp;t=h&amp;vpsrc=6&amp;gl=us&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=29.347869,-98.460465&amp;spn=0.002314,0.002816&amp;z=18&amp;source=embed\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/code><\/p>\n<p>An explosion\u00a0occurred\u00a0at a refinery in San Antonio earlier today, according to the city&#8217;s fire department and news reports. Firefighters battled a fire that began after an explosion this afternoon at the AGE Refinery. Local news station WOAI <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woai.com\/news\/local\/story\/Explosion-fire-at-South-Side-refinery\/zfb59YINa0GQz3_kbxSTFA.cspx\">reports<\/a> that &#8220;the San Antonio Fire Department has confirmed a type of diesel jet fuel is burning. Crews have been using an extinguisher system at the refinery to help put out the fire.&#8221; The station says that the fire &#8220;appeared to be out as of 1:15 pm, and that workers were evacuated from the building.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> StateImpact Texas spoke by phone with Deborah Foster, Public Information Officer with the San Antonio Fire Department. She says that &#8220;they had a large explosion that was called into dispatch [at the fire department] about 25 minutes ago. &#8221; Foster says firefighters knocked down the fire fairly quickly, and that now &#8220;we have everything under control.&#8221;\u00a0Right now firefighters at the refinery are continuing to spray water on the tanks &#8220;to make sure they&#8217;re cool,&#8221; she says, &#8220;but the fire is knocked down and there were no injuries.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Were any pollutants released during the explosion and fire? Foster says that they don&#8217;t know of any at this time. &#8220;We don&#8217;t know what caused it,&#8221; she says, &#8220;but we&#8217;ll investigate more once the fuel has burned off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>StateImpact Texas has contacted NuStar Energy, which owns the refinery, and will report back once we have any information from them.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time a fire and explosion have happened at the refinery, according to WOAI:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is the second explosion and fire at the refinery in less than two years. Back in May of 2010, a truck driver suffered severe burns after a truck being loaded with fuel exploded at the refinery, setting off a chain reaction of smaller explosions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>WOAI has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woai.com\/Photo.aspx?slideshow=f7458e8f-76e9-46a2-a2cf-073eb7a2b02e&amp;photo=dee45a28-df1b-4c5d-8b1d-778920762aea\">a slideshow<\/a> of the fire.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/youtu.be\/JgsJC2rWDhY<\/p>\n<h5><em>Video of a 2010 explosion at the AGE Refinery in San Antonio<\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View Larger Map An explosion\u00a0occurred\u00a0at a refinery in San Antonio earlier today, according to the city&#8217;s fire department and news reports. Firefighters battled a fire that began after an explosion this afternoon at the AGE Refinery. Local news station WOAI reports that &#8220;the San Antonio Fire Department has confirmed a type of diesel jet fuel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[59],"tags":[21,83],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2576,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions\/2576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}