Posted on 12/14/2015 9:03:04 AM PST by thackney
Firefighters battled a blaze Monday aboard a ship in the Houston Ship Channel.
The fire broke out before 10 a.m. on a ship docked near American Petroleum and Federal, officials said.
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http://abc13.com/news/fire-crews-battle-flames-on-houston-ship-channel-vessel-/1121782/
Fire crews worked to extinguish flames seen on the deck of the Navigator Europa docked at the Port of Houston.
A stretch of the ship channel is closed near the ship.
The Coast Guard says the motor caught fire on the ship. The Coast Guard as well as the Port of Houston and the Houston Fire Department is working to put the fire out.
The Coast Guard says initial reports indicate the ship was transferring ethylene. There’s no word yet on whether the chemical was the source of the fire. Ethylene is used to control fruit ripening.
At least the ship channel itself probably won’t catch fire.
Again.
Not good for Galveston Bay oysters.
Y’All have flammable rivers there too?
Damn! I knew I felt right at home.
Doesn’t look like an engine fire in that picture.
Used to. The ship channel last caught fire in the early 90's.
I seen it, yep.
It has been cleaned up some since then.
It is lined with many miles of refineries and chem plants
and attendant ships and barges and whatnot. Probably a good
idea to keep it at least unlikely to catch fire.
Vessel fires in the Houston Ship Channel make me queasy, and I’m fourteen hundred miles away from it
Were there any Muslims around before the fire started?
Looking for that darn black enameled bird statuette again, methinks.
Texas City 1947
Ethylene is far different than ammonia nitrate.
The Coast Guard says the motor caught fire on the ship. The Coast Guard as well as the Port of Houston and the Houston Fire Department is working to put the fire out.
http://abc13.com/news/fire-crews-battle-flames-on-houston-ship-channel-vessel-/1121782/
Fire crews worked to extinguish flames seen on the deck of the Navigator Europa docked at the Port of Houston.
The Houston Ship Channel was re-opened after a burning tanker prompted a nearly three-hour shutdown of a two-mile-long (3.20-km-long) section of the largest petrochemical port in the United States.
The fire was extinguished nearly 90 minutes after it started, but the channel remained closed for nearly another 90 minutes as firefighters monitored the air to ensure no toxic fumes lingered, Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Andrew Kendrick said.
“Initially it was a big fire, but it came down pretty quickly,” he said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/shipping-houston-fire-idUSL1N14315Y20151214
Sorry. That picture was in the article, but I’ve realized it is a file photo of ship fire and not of the actual event.
Thanks.
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