[LikeLight]

For a while on Fox they were showing an arial view of what looked like a fire on the horizon, near where some refineries were burning off gas . . . this was a large plume of black smoke, not just a gas pipe burning off excess . . . but then they never went back to that shot . . .

[kingu]

this was a large plume of black smoke

The local Fox station had a close up of the bottom of the big black plume which was the top of one of the cracking towers burning off product. (And I'm sure taking advantage of the situation a bit to dump some other stuff at the same time.)

[Black Tooth]

For a while on Fox they were showing an arial view of what looked like a fire on the horizon, this was a large plume of black smoke

Oh, sorry, that was our BBQ.

[Koblenz]

For a while on Fox they were showing an arial view of what looked like a fire on the horizon, near where some refineries were burning off gas . . . this was a large plume of black smoke, not just a gas pipe burning off excess . . . but then they never went back to that shot . . .

I think this is normal when the grid goes down: power plants burn off excess or something like that. I know that it happened two or three years ago in NYC when the power went out: that big plant in Brooklyn reportedly had flames, but it was by design. I would imagine the same applies here.