{"id":202666,"date":"2026-03-13T08:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/202666\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T08:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:04:07","slug":"thick-smoke-towers-above-texas-chemical-plant-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/202666\/","title":{"rendered":"Thick Smoke Towers Above Texas Chemical Plant Blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Flames and towering columns of thick smoke were seen rising from a large fire burning at a chemical plant facility in Pasadena, Texas, late on Thursday, March 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lpoem\/posts\/pfbid02BYyprZYQjHRpki1WargJrYjdNjyMZ8dyb7ghdVBKCWci8JqC2GpJY5775FDiUcDsl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;said&quot;}\" class=\"link \">said<\/a> multiple agencies responded to the fire which occurred at a chemical process unit at LyondellBasell\u2019s BayPort site on Bay Area Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No injuries were reported and no action is required by the public. Harris County Pollution Control is conducting air monitoring in areas surrounding the facility, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lpoem\/posts\/pfbid02BYyprZYQjHRpki1WargJrYjdNjyMZ8dyb7ghdVBKCWci8JqC2GpJY5775FDiUcDsl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:officials.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;officials.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">officials.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This footage, captured by Ahmad Amir, shows authorities responding to the blaze as thick smoke and flames rise into the sky. Credit: Ahmad Amir via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flames and towering columns of thick smoke were seen rising from a large fire burning at a chemical&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[79885,79884,79865,4939,27,29,28,79883,79882],"class_list":["post-202666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-ahmad-amir","tag-flames","tag-harris-county-pollution-control","tag-pasadena","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-thick-smoke","tag-towering-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}