Energy & Environment 2019 fire at ITC’s Deer Park facility could have been prevented by company, federal agency finds. The petrochemical fire near Houston burned for three days and released ...

On March 17, 2019, multiple reports were made to Deer Park police alerting them of smoke in the area shortly after 10 a.m.

The ITC facility housed more than 240 aboveground tanks. The fire began March 17, 2019, after a tank’s circulation pump failed and began to leak naphtha, a highly flammable liquid.

Workers repaired the Intercontinental Terminals Company (ITC) tank farm after the petrochemical fire that occurred in March 2019. Photographed Tuesday, May 14, 2019, in Deer Park, Texas.

ITC agreed to pay agencies $6.6 million for environmental damages from its 2019 tank fire that burned for three days. The preventable fire ripped through 15 atmospheric storage tanks filled with ...

The plaintiffs claim ITC's negligence led to their alleged injuries from the chemical fire in March 2019. "When you bring harm to people, you have to be held accountable," Harris County Attorney ...

ITC was hit with five criminal charges concerning the 2019 chemical fire. In 2021, the facility reached a $900,000 settlement with Harris County due to the chemical fire.

Energy & Environment 2019 Deer Park terminal fire settlement reached, ITC to pay $6.6 million in damages. A black plume of smoke filled the air on May 5 that year as the tank fire burned for three ...

This story was originally published by Public Health Watch, which teamed with the Tribune to produce a two-part series about the 2019 ITC fire in Deer Park.You can read those stories here and here ...