At level one, received a call from a water rescue at the plant. the crosby fire department initiated that rescue. the next morning or later that morning, somewhere after daylight and i remember it to be somewhere around 7:00 or 8:00 a.m. rk the members that were working down at the elc had a conference call with the plant corporate officers and they asked for a complete evacuation of the plant. shortly after that, an hour or so later, department of homeland security infrastructure protection contacted myself and chief reed with the fire marshalls office and others and we had extensive conference call and talked about what was going on out at the plant. since that time, we developed a plan with the crosby fire department, who is the incident
Fire marshalls office told us that smoke from the organic approxima chemicals are similar to standing over a camp fire. the fire marshal s office s plan from the beginning was to allow the fire to burn itself out. firefighters are taking procaution to prevent it from spreading. after we complete, oh fishlffic will be providing their statement here as well. thank you, very much. my name is bob royal. royall. i m the assistant chief of emergency operations for the harris county fire marshal s office. the harris county has mat team is part of my command. a statement i d like to share with you is that earlier this week, at approximately 2:00 a.m. on tuesday morning, the county elc, which was in full operation