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There were three fatal accidents within a six-month period involving aircraft manufactured by Boeing. Two of those accidents occurred during passenger operations and both involved “low hours” aircraft from the company’s best-selling 737 line. The third accident occurred during an air cargo operation and involved an older, “high hours,” 767 model that originally entered service as a passenger aircraft but had been refitted for air cargo. Lion Air 610 29 October, 2018 Lion Air 610, a Boeing 737 Max 8…

What has become a massive chemical fire at the Intercontinental Terminals Company facility located on Independence Parkway in Deer Park started on March 17, 2019. Overnight between March 18 and 19 the Deer Park ITC fire significantly worsened. Attempts by firefighters to extinguish the blaze have been to no avail as the flames engulfed not just the initial chemical tank that caught fire at the facility but multiple other containment tanks on the premises. The inferno now encompasses sink chemical…

A fire at the International Terminals Company (ITC) facility in Houston suburb of Deer Park has led to a “shelter in place” order for ITC employees who were working inside the facility when the fire broke out Sunday at around 10:30 a.m. As of 5:30 p.m. the shelter in place order is restricted to the facility itself and to the Deer Park community. At this time the cause of the fire is unknown but on-scene officials reported it is still…

Deer Park, Texas has been issued a shelter-in-place at 8:58 a.m. after a fire broke out in a chemical plant. The International Terminals Company’s plant has around 13.1 million barrels of storage on site and first responders have indicated that the fire has begun to spread. The facility located on Independance Parkway, just north of Highway 225, in La Porte,TX has been on fire for hours and is still not under control. It’s unclear at this time if there have…

A chemical fire at the Intercontinental Terminals Company facility located on Independence Parkway in Deer Park began burning late in the morning on March 17, 2019. 30 ITC employees were on the scene at the time the blaze started. According to company officials, the employees have all been accounted for as of this time. ITC hasn’t issued any information about possible exposure of employees to the chemical fire or to gasses that are emitted as a result of the blaze….