Fire continues at Texas plant; 50K under evacuation order

 

November 29, 2019



PORT NECHES, Texas (AP) — More than 50,000 people in East Texas remained under a mandatory evacuation order Thursday as a fire continued to burn at a chemical plant, one day after two massive explosions there.

Jefferson County Sheriff Zena Stephens said the evacuation order and a 10 p.m. curfew order remain in effect. Officials don't know when people will be able to return to their homes.

"It's Thanksgiving, a lot of people are displaced, they can't go home," Stephens told TV station KFDM Thursday, explaining the danger of further explosions and fire rather than air quality problems is the rea...



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