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April 4, 2019

Blast at Texas Chemical Plant Kills 1, Injures 2
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Elsewhere in Texas, one person was killed, and two others were
hospitalized, after a blast tore through a chemical plant outside of
Houston on Tuesday. The fire at the plant in Crosby, which produces a
highly flammable gas used in the production of jet fuel, was the second
such fire at a Houston-area chemical plant in less than three weeks. On
March 17, a massive fire at a petrochemical plant in Deer Creek sent a
cloud of toxic smoke over Houston and as far away as Austin, 150 miles
to the west.


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