Harris County Fire Marshal’s Office, Harris County Pollution Control, Harris County Public Health and other government agencies are on site at the KMCO chemical plant in Crosby today as the investigation begins into what caused yesterday’s fire. The initial explosion, triggered by a flammable gas called Isobutylene, is responsible for one fatality and two serious injuries. Emergency crews extinguished the fire late Tuesday afternoon. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) […]
