Explosion at Israeli Refinery in Texas

Feb 18, 2008 09:59

Fox news witness reports: "I was 25 miles away from explosion, drives truck and the truck was rocked." He runs from NC to Southern Ca every week. Says it's a huge explosion, 9:15 am. "Huge plume of smoke" Thought it was a bomb, so loud, HUGE, never seen anything like it. Smoke column is up 2000' spread out over 5 miles. Looks like 100 times the size of an oil well fire in Kuwait during the first gulf war." "The fireball engulfed the entire refinery, there's no way anyone could have got out." I-20 is closed at 178 mile marker, diverting traffic around the refinery..."

"All schools have been shut down. Sid Richardson carbon black plant which is in close vicinity to the refinery, reports everybody is OK. Emergency responders having a tough time communicating, due to high cell phone traffic. I-20 has been shut down!"

This follows an earlier gas line explosion at 4 a.m Feb 18, 2008 in Pennsylvania.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1972224/posts?q=1&;page=101
http://www.wnep.com/global/story.asp?s=7886679