{"id":244723,"date":"2026-04-11T05:30:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/244723\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T05:30:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:30:32","slug":"fire-extinguished-at-marathon-refinery-in-south-central-el-paso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/244723\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire extinguished at Marathon Refinery in South-Central El Paso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">EL PASO, Texas (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktsm.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:KTSM;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;KTSM&quot;}\" class=\"link \">KTSM<\/a>) \u2014 Marathon El Paso Petroleum Refinery crews have extinguished a fire at their facility in South-Central El Paso, according to the El Paso Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Emergency crews responded to a call for service at 212 N. Clark Dr. The fire was categorized a as a Condition 3 event, according to a spokesperson with the El Paso Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/b4bf9d023a240a2ab8e812afcf2329ca.jpeg\"\/><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/98fd9d8acd19e9e7783fb1cca6690a10.jpeg\"\/><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/8ec27977ddcf0ab8393f92bc8e59d71c.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In this case, the Condition 3 status came because of the facility, and not due to the blaze, according to an El Paso Fire Department spokesman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">KTSM 9 News has reached out to Marathon about the fire, and received the following statement:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cTrained teams are responding to a fire at Marathon\u2019s El Paso refinery. There have been no injuries reported. Air monitoring has been deployed in the community as a precaution, and there is no indication of off-site impact. Our priority is to ensure the safety of our employees and contractors, first responders, the surrounding community and to limit environmental impact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">EPFD was assisting in extinguishing the fire, but Marathon led the operation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">We will update this story when we learn more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News.;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;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) \u2014 Marathon El Paso Petroleum Refinery crews have extinguished a fire at their facility&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,9236,140,139,498,12743,93420,4604,16212],"class_list":{"0":"post-244723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-el-paso","9":"tag-el-paso-fire-department","10":"tag-el-paso-headlines","11":"tag-el-paso-news","12":"tag-ktsm","13":"tag-marathon","14":"tag-petroleum-refinery","15":"tag-south-central-el-paso","16":"tag-the-el-paso-fire-department"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244723","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=244723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}