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      <ul class="mol-bullets-with-font"><li class=""><strong>Two explosions were heard at the Arkema Inc plant in Crosby, Texas, early Thursday morning</strong></li><li class=""><strong>The chemical plant lost power and  backup generators amid storm Harvey's deluge</strong></li><li class=""><strong>It left the plant without refrigeration for its organic peroxides, which will burn as temperatures rise</strong></li><li class=""><strong>The company said there is six feet of water at the plant and they have lost critical refrigeration of the materials</strong></li><li class=""><strong>Plant officials warned that more explosions could occur and said they would let the fire burn itself out </strong></li><li class=""><strong>Arkema manufactures organic peroxides, compounds used in pharmaceuticals and construction materials</strong></li><li class=""><strong>The company shut down the Crosby site before Harvey made landfall last week</strong></li><li class=""><strong>Local officials established a 1.5 mile evacuation zone around the plant on Tuesday after it lost power  </strong></li><li class=""><strong>Meanwhile, about 150 miles west of Houston, almost 30,000 gallons of crude oil and about 8,500 gallons of wastewater spilled because floodwaters from Harvey toppled two oil storage tanks</strong></li></ul><p class="author-section byline-plain">By

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</p><div itemprop="articleBody"><p class="mol-para-with-font">Two explosions have rocked a flooded chemical plant outside of Houston just hours after the company warned a gas explosion was imminent.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Despite 30 to 40 foot flames and black smoke spewing from The Arkema Inc plant in Crosby, local officials have insisted the explosions produced no toxins and said the community was not in danger. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Fifteen police officers were hospitalized as a precaution after being affected by the smoke following the explosion just before 1am on Thursday. Some of the officers complained of dizziness and headaches.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The explosions came after The Arkema Inc plant  lost power and backup generators in the wake of Harvey's days-long deluge. It left the plant without refrigeration for chemicals that will burn as temperatures rise.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The Harris County Emergency Operations Center reported the explosions at the plant and about 40-feet of black smoke  rising from the facility in the early hours of Thursday morning.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">At a news conference in Washington DC on Thursday, FEMA administrator Brock Long said he considered plumes from the explosion 'incredibly dangerous.'</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Local officials refused to refer to the incident as 'explosions' and instead called them a series of 'pops' and 'chemical reactions'. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font"></p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Arkema have warned that more explosions could take place in the coming hours or days and urged residents not to return to the area until it has been cleared.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font"></p><p class="mol-para-with-font"></p><p class="mol-para-with-font"></p><p class="mol-para-with-font"><span class="mol-style-bold">Scroll down for videos </span></p><div class="mol-img-group xwArtSplitter"><div class="mol-img">  <div class="image-wrap">
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</div><div class="clear"></div><p class="imageCaption">Two explosions occurred at the flooded Arkema plant in Crosby, Texas early Thursday morning causing flames and black smoke to spew from the facility that houses extremely flamable organic peroxides</p></div><div class="mol-img-group xwArtSplitter"><div class="mol-img">  <div class="image-wrap">
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</div><div class="clear"></div><p class="imageCaption">Despite  flames and black smoke spewing from The Arkema Inc plant (above), local officials have insisted the explosions produced no toxins and said the community was not in danger</p></div><p class="mol-para-with-font">'Unprecedented flooding overwhelmed our primary power and two sources of emergency backup power. As a result, we lost critical refrigeration of the products on site. Some of our organic peroxides products burn if not stored at low temperature,' the plant said in a statement.  </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'Organic peroxides are extremely flammable and, as agreed with public officials, the best course of action is to let the fire burn itself out.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'We want local residents to be aware that product is stored in multiple locations on the site, and a threat of additional explosion remains. Please do not return to the area within the evacuation zone until local emergency response authorities announce it is safe to do so.' </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The company shut down the plant last week before Harvey struck and local officials established a 1.5 mile evacuation zone around the plant on Tuesday after it lost power. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The police officers who were hospitalized were manning the perimeter around the site when the explosion occurred. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said no toxins were released and that there was no danger to the community. He said the sheriff's deputies who were hospitalized suffering from irritated eyes and throats after the blasts have all been released. Gonzalez compared the smoke inhalation to 'standing over a BBQ pit'. </p><div class="mol-img-group xwArtSplitter">    <div class="mol-img">  <div class="image-wrap">
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</div>    <p class="imageCaption">Two explosions have occurred at the Arkema Inc plant in Crosby, Texas, after the plant lost power and its backup generators amid Harvey's days-long deluge. Pictured above, a police officer lays down a safety flare while blocking the road leading to the plant</p></div><div class="mol-img-group xwArtSplitter">    <div class="mol-img">  <div class="image-wrap">
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</div><p class="mol-para-with-font">The HCSO updated its Twitter to say: 'The smoke inhaled by 10 deputies near plant in Crosby is beloved to be a non-toxic irritant, say company officials.'</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'8 of 15 deputies have been released from hospital following Arkema plant incident. 7 others still being evaluated.'</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Assistant Harris County Fire Chief Bob Rayall said the explosions emitted 30 to 40 foot black smoke and flames.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">He assured the public the explosions were expected and had been planned. Rayall said there were nine containers inside the plant containing various organic peroxides. Three of the nine have lost refrigeration so far - meaning it is likely they will catch fire.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'What will happen with these containers is they will pop and they will heat up and they will catch on fire. They will burn with intensity until the fuel is consumed and then they will die down again,' he said. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Rayall said they were deploying air monitoring to see where the smoke and flames go, but said everything so far is going according to their plans.    </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'Our 1.5 mile safety zone around this is more than adequate and until something changes we're going to continue out defensive posture,' he said.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'Anything can happen when you're in an emergency situation and we're still under water out there, so we're being very cautious.'</p><p class="mol-para-with-font"></p><div class="mol-img-group xwArtSplitter"><div>  <div class="image-wrap">
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</div><p class="mol-para-with-font">Burlington Resources is a subsidiary of ConocoPhillips. Company representatives did not immediately respond to telephone and email messages seeking comment.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">More damage to oil industry infrastructure is expected to emerge as floodwaters recede.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Arkema's plant is required to develop and submit a risk management plan to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, because it has large amounts of sulfur dioxide, a toxic chemical, and methylpropene, a flammable gas. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The plans are supposed to detail the effects of a potential release, evaluate worst-case scenarios and explain a company's response.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">In its most recently available submission from 2014, Arkema said potentially 1.1million residents could be impacted over a distance of 23miles in a worse case, according to information compiled by a nonprofit group and posted on a website hosted by the Houston Chronicle.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">But, Arkema added, it was using 'multiple layers of preventative and mitigation measures' at the plant, including steps to reduce the amount of substances released, and that made the worst case 'very unlikely.'</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Daryl Roberts, the company's vice president of manufacturing, technology and regulatory services in the Americas, did not dispute that worst-case scenario but said that assumed all the controls in place failed and strong winds blew directly toward Houston, the nation's fourth-largest city.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'We have not modeled this exact scenario but we are very comfortable with this 1.5-mile radius,' Roberts told the AP. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">He added that it mostly resembled less serious scenarios that would affect a half-mile radius and a few dozen people.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Roberts said the vessels containing the organic peroxide are equipped with controls to slow the release of chemicals. Because of the water, he said, the chemicals will quickly vaporize, reducing the size and scope of the fire.</p></div>
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