NACOGDOCHES, Texas (AP) \u2014 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
The Nacogdoches County Sheriff’s Office received numerous calls late Monday of a loud explosion in Etoile in eastern Texas, a small, rural community about 140 miles (225 kilometers) northeast of Houston.<\/p>\n
The sheriff’s office said the explosion happened at an oil well site. The city of Nacogdoches, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) away, described it as a natural gas well, based on information it received from the Texas Department of Public Safety, city spokesperson Kevin Meyer said Tuesday. <\/p>\n
Several residents evacuated as a precaution and others were asked to shelter in place.<\/p>\n
The fire was still burning early Tuesday, but it was not spreading and was being monitored, Meyer said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is currently no danger to local residents from the fire, and air quality in the area is being monitored as well,\u201d Meyer said in a news release. <\/p>\n
A well control emergency response company was working to suppress the fire, Meyer said. <\/p>\n
Drilling company H&P said the cause of the well blowout is not yet known.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt this time there is no indication of an immediate broader risk, and monitoring is ongoing,\u201d spokesperson Stephanie Higgins said in a statement.<\/p>\n
She said the company is cooperating with investigators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NACOGDOCHES, Texas (AP) \u2014 An explosion at a Texas natural gas or oil well site set off a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[40924,25381,557,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-259783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-ap-business","tag-ap-u-s-news","tag-associated-press","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259783","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=259783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}