Thick black smoke shot up from the plant – located about 60 miles from Houston, Texas – as the flames kept burning near the ground, aerial footage showed.
The fire started erupted at around 8:00 a.m. at Sound Resource Solutions, a 22-acre petroleum processing plant located along FM 1127 in San Jacinto County.
A fire at a Shepherd chemical plant that prompted emergency officials to issue a shelter-in-place Wednesday has been contained, according to officials.
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