‘It doesn’t look safe at all’: Air quality concerns rise after Shell facility fire in Deer Park
By Briana Conner : Saturday, May 6, 2023: ABC NEW
DEER PARK, Texas (KTRK) — Any incident at a gas and oil refinery is certainly cause for concern, especially for people who live in the neighborhoods around the Shell refinery.
“This kind of stuff right here is still scary,” a man named Vance told Eyewitness News as he looked at the smoke across State Highway 225 on Friday. He was unsettled by the hot orange flames and thick black smoke rising from the Shell refinery.
“It looks like a bunch of chemicals being released into the air, and it doesn’t look safe at all,” he said.
Shell did not make anyone available Friday to answer questions from ABC13.
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