{"id":312938,"date":"2026-05-28T21:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T21:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/312938\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T21:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T21:06:07","slug":"citgo-refinery-pump-fire-quickly-contained-at-corpus-christi-east-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/312938\/","title":{"rendered":"CITGO refinery pump fire quickly contained at Corpus Christi East Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CITGO&#8217;s spokesperson said heavy smoke was reported at the refinery Thursday afternoon, but no injuries or community threat were reported.<\/p>\n<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 A fire at the CITGO Corpus Christi Refinery-East Plant was quickly contained Thursday afternoon after a pump caught fire at the tank farm, according to a company spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>The fire happened around 1:30 p.m. and produced heavy smoke visible from the refinery.<\/p>\n<p>According to CITGO, refinery personnel followed emergency response procedures and extinguished the fire shortly after it started.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported, and the company said the incident did not pose a threat to the surrounding community, employees, or contractors.<\/p>\n<p>CITGO also said refinery operations were not affected by the fire.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation into the cause of the incident is underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CITGO&#8217;s spokesperson said heavy smoke was reported at the refinery Thursday afternoon, but no injuries or community threat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-312938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312938","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=312938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}