{"id":2016280,"date":"2023-08-30T00:41:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T04:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/louisiana-refinery-fire-mostly-contained-but-residents-worry-about-air-quality\/"},"modified":"2023-08-30T00:43:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T04:43:17","slug":"louisiana-refinery-fire-mostly-contained-but-residents-worry-about-air-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/louisiana-refinery-fire-mostly-contained-but-residents-worry-about-air-quality\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana refinery fire contained, air quality concerns residents."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flouisiana-refinery-fire-mostly-contained-but-residents-worry-about-air-quality%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2016280&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div data-post-content=\"true\" class=\"post_content\" id=\"post_content\">\n<h2>GARYVILLE, La.\u2014Fire\u2063 at Louisiana Oil Refinery Continues to Burn, Residents Concerned<\/h2>\n<p>Crews were still working to suppress flare-ups Saturday as a fire at a\u2062 Louisiana oil refinery burned for a \u2062second \u2062day along the \u200bbanks of the Mississippi River, while \u2064residents\u200d worried\u2064 about health effects from \u200dthe fumes and black \u200bsmoke.<\/p>\n<p>Tests have so \u200dfar found <strong>\u201cnon-detectable\u2062 air quality impacts\u201d<\/strong> \u200c from \u2062Friday&#8217;s massive fire, Marathon\u200c Patroleum\u2063 said in a emailed statement Saturday. The\u200b state Department of Environmental Quality and a third-party contractor were conducing\u200d the tests.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200b company said two people were injured and 10 others evaluated \u2062for heat stress. The fire damaged two giant storage tanks\u2062 for naphtha, a component in the production of gasoline and jet fuels.<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode\">\n<div class=\"border-comp-divider mb-4 mr-4 w-full max-w-[500px] border px-5 py-4 text-[16px] leading-[20px] text-[#262626] md:float-left\">\n<div class=\"mb-3 font-sans text-[16px] font-semibold uppercase leading-[19px] text-[#2F2F2F]\">Related Stories<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"mb-1 line-clamp-2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/world\/more-evacuation-orders-rescinded-in-b-c-fires-as-warm-dry-weather-returns-5481130\">More Evacuation Orders Rescinded in\u200c BC Fires as Warm, Dry Weather Returns<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"text-comp-caption text-[14px] leading-[18px]\">8\/26\/2023<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"mb-1 line-clamp-2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/fire-at-louisiana-oil-refinery-sends-tower-of-black-smoke-into-the-air-but-no-injuries-reported-5480895\">Fire at \u2064Louisiana Oil Refinery Sends Tower of \u2064Black Smoke Into the Air,\u2063 but No Injuries Reported<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"text-comp-caption text-[14px] leading-[18px]\">8\/25\/2023<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On Friday, orange flames belched\u200b a column of\u200c thick smoke\u2063 over the facility in Garyville, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) northwest \u200dof New Orleans, forcing residents of the mostly rural area \u200bto evacuate within a 2-mile (3-kilometer) radius.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou look outside your house \u2063and the sky is black,\u201d Hilary \u2062Cambre, who lives right next\u2062 to the refinery, told WWL-TV on Friday. He \u2063and other residents said they felt nauseous, dizzy and had headaches.<\/p>\n<p>People with respiratory conditions should avoid going outdoors \u200cif \u200cthey \u2064live near the facility, <strong>Dr. Rustin Reed with Tulane University\u2019s School of \u2063Public \u2064Health and Tropical\u200c Medicine<\/strong> told the television station.<\/p>\n<p>Some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tucker-carlson-guest-breaks-down-why-conservatives-can-easily-flip-300-school-boards-across-america\/\" title=\"Tucker Carlson Guest Breaks Down Why Conservatives Can \u2018Easily Flip 300 School Boards\u2019 Across America\">schools locked<\/a> down Friday and two nearby schools served \u200bas evacuation centers,\u2064 the station reported. One resident\u2063 described police officers driving around with loudspeakers alerting people to the mandatory\u200d evacuation.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200ccause \u2063of the fire will be\u2063 investigated, the\u200d company said.<\/p>\n<p>People who&#8217;ve been \u2063affected by the fire\u200c and need assistance can call \u200dthe company&#8217;s \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-dhs-launch-effort-to-bring-back-deported-veterans\/\" title=\"Biden, DHS Launch Effort To Bring Back Deported Veterans\">toll-free hotline<\/a> at <strong>866-601-5880<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crews in Garyville, La. continue to battle flare-ups at an oil refinery fire along the Mississippi River. Concerns over health effects and air quality persist among residents. Initial tests show no detectable impact on air quality from the massive fire that started on Friday, according to Marathon Petroleum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":2016281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2016280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2016280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2016281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2016280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2016280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}