{"id":163401,"date":"2023-05-05T19:22:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T00:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/5-hurt-after-fire-at-houston-area-shell-petrochemical-plant"},"modified":"2023-05-05T19:22:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T00:22:19","slug":"5-hurt-after-fire-at-houston-area-shell-petrochemical-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/5-hurt-after-fire-at-houston-area-shell-petrochemical-plant","title":{"rendered":"5 hurt after fire at Houston-area Shell petrochemical plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/5-hurt-after-fire-at-houston-area-shell-petrochemical-plant2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>DEER PARK, Texas (AP) \u2014 Fire erupted at a petrochemical plant in the Houston area Friday, leaving five workers hospitalized and sending up a huge plume of smoke visible for miles.<\/p>\n<p>The Harris County Sheriff\u2019s Office said the fire was at a Shell USA Inc. facility in Deer Park, a suburb east of Houston.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement received a call to help divert traffic around the plant just after 3 p.m., Harris County Sheriff\u2019s Office spokesman Thomas Gilliland said. The city of Deer Park said in an advisory that there was no shelter-in-place order for residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEER PARK, Texas (AP) \u2014 Fire erupted at a petrochemical plant in the Houston area Friday, leaving five workers hospitalized and sending up a huge plume of smoke visible for miles. The Harris County Sheriff\u2019s Office said the fire was at a Shell USA Inc. facility in Deer Park, a suburb east of Houston. Law [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-law-enforcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}