See:
No injuries in Tesoro ‘unplanned fire event’
The reporting in that article appears to be seriously underplaying the scope of the incident. This event was considerably more than just an exceptional amount of flaring. There were multiple fires underway in separate areas. One of the fires was either atop a storage tank or coming up from behind the storage tank some tens of feet into the air above the storage tank.
How many illegal muslims transported to WA? How many to Denver? Not a peep as Chickenpoper in a tight re-election race. sanctuary city and all, I’d bet thousands.
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Given the news reports and my experience with emergency flares in a process unit, I suspect this was only controlled flares and no fire outside intended release.
An emergency flare from an upset in a process unit can be a massive fire, but completely under control from a nozzle designed for the heat and flow.