{"id":259570,"date":"2026-04-21T14:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/259570\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T14:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:22:08","slug":"authorities-investigating-large-fire-after-explosion-at-east-texas-oil-well-near-nacogdoches-tuesday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/259570\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities investigating large fire after explosion at East Texas oil well near Nacogdoches Tuesday morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">NACOGDOCHES, Texas  &#8212; An explosion at a Texas natural gas or oil well site set off a large fire that was seen for miles and led to some evacuations, but caused no injuries, authorities said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Nacogdoches County Sheriff&#8217;s Office received numerous calls late Monday about a loud explosion in Etoile, a small, rural community in East Texas about 140 miles northeast of Houston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The sheriff&#8217;s office said the explosion happened at an oil well site. The city of Nacogdoches, about 20 miles away, described it as a natural gas well, based on information from the Texas Department of Public Safety, city spokesperson Kevin Meyer said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Residents were advised to evacuate as a precaution, and others were asked to shelter in place. It wasn&#8217;t immediately known how many residents were affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The fire was still burning early Tuesday, but it was not spreading and was being monitored, Meyer said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;There is currently no danger to local residents from the fire, and air quality in the area is being monitored as well,&#8221; Meyer said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A well-controlled emergency response company from Houston was on its way to further suppress the fire, Meyer said.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ABC News Internet Ventures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NACOGDOCHES, Texas &#8212; An explosion at a Texas natural gas or oil well site set off a large&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[97329,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-259570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-97329","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259570","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=259570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}