(Editor’s Note: As you will all remember, pipelines are safe and never explode, break, leak. Just keep that in mind.)
Just last night ANOTHER pipeline, this time off the Phillips 66 pipeline in Paradis, Louisiana, sparked a fire after an explosion. One worker is missing and others have been injured. While it wasn’t immediately understood what caused the fire, a crew of six workers had been cleaning it.
It’s been reported that two of the workers were hospitalized with one going to a burn center and the three other workers had minor or no injuries.
From the article:
“Champagne said the source of the 20-inch pipeline had been shut off but the fire would have to burn off the rest of the liquid inside, which could take hours or even days.
The pipeline was carrying a highly volatile byproduct of natural gas, which was burning cleanly and at very high temperatures over a 30- to 40-foot area, the sheriff said.”
Homes were evacuated and highways diverted, around Paradis (which is about 30 miles west of New Orleans). They have since reopened.
Source: CBS
