hazardous material crews are at the tesoro golden eagle refinery on solano way. on the phone, randy sawyer, contra costa hazardous materials director. good to talk to you again. what s happened this time at this refinery? they had a partial power outage, the refinery, and part of the refinery affected by the power outage. they sent their excess gas flare to burn off. and when it originated there was a lot of gas and smoke that was associated with it. we just now last five minutes downgraded the incident to where we just lifted the health advisory. we have video from one flare and some steam. last october i think the previous one at this same refinery we re showing some of that video. this doesn t seem to compare? it doesn t. they had a full outage there at that time. they lost all their steam at the same time. this one, they just had a partial outage and didn t lose the steam. the steam when it goes to the flare, helps burn offer the gas so you don t get as much smoke
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