Monday in the Petrochemical Capitol of the World

This thing is still burning 23 hours later. They need to burn off twenty miles of pipeline natural gas. Reports indicate this was torched off after a SUV ran through a fence and hit an aboveground control valve- supposedly stupidity, not terrorist.

Deer Park, La Porte, and Pasadena (who brag that they are the largest volunteer FD in America) Departments have been operating. Houston sent four engines, two trucks and two chiefs about two hours into the incident. At least five homes have been damaged. Looked like last night they were operating about eight master streams (two aerial) on exposures. HFD Engines 93 and 70 with some SOC assets are still there.

Wonder where they are getting all that water.
 
Two things don't make sense.
The first is that whoever laid that pipeline didn't consider placing isolation valves - at least a mile apart in case of an emergency such as this;
the second thing is the amount of gas that's still under pressure - 24 hours later. You would think that each minute the pressure in the pipe decreases substantially as the gas is released and burned off.
 
entropychaser said:
This thing is still burning 23 hours later. They need to burn off twenty miles of pipeline natural gas. Reports indicate this was torched off after a SUV ran through a fence and hit an aboveground control valve- supposedly stupidity, not terrorist.

Deer Park, La Porte, and Pasadena (who brag that they are the largest volunteer FD in America) Departments have been operating. Houston sent four engines, two trucks and two chiefs about two hours into the incident. At least five homes have been damaged. Looked like last night they were operating about eight master streams (two aerial) on exposures. HFD Engines 93 and 70 with some SOC assets are still there.

Wonder where they are getting all that water.
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Better still, where is all that water going?
 
seniorofficer said:
Two things don't make sense.
The first is that whoever laid that pipeline didn't consider placing isolation valves - at least a mile apart in case of an emergency such as this;
the second thing is the amount of gas that's still under pressure - 24 hours later. You would think that each minute the pressure in the pipe decreases substantially as the gas is released and burned off.
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What can I tell you? The headquarters of most pipeline companies are in Houston. There are more pipeline engineers here than the rest of the world.
 
This fire is still burning at 1600 hours CST but down to a flare. The Fire Department units have taken up, Centerpoint Energy is rewiring the area.
 
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