{"id":10155,"date":"2020-05-20T07:29:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T04:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/explosion-injures-two-at-galveston-oil-storage-terminal\/10155\/"},"modified":"2020-05-20T07:29:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T04:29:35","slug":"explosion-injures-two-at-galveston-oil-storage-terminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/explosion-injures-two-at-galveston-oil-storage-terminal\/10155\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosion Injures Two at Galveston Oil Storage Terminal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><em>[Brief] <\/em>On Tuesday, an explosion and fire at a tank farm adjacent to the Galveston Ship Channel resulted in two injuries, according to local officials.<\/p>\n<p>According to initial reports in local media, a work crew may have been conducting welding work near a tank containing heavy crude at the Pelican Island Storage Terminal. The blast and subsequent fire affected only one tank.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Firefighting operations are currently under way, and teams from the Galveston Fire Department are using firefighting foam to suppress the flames.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Texas A&amp;M University campus at Galveston &#8211; home to the state&#039;s maritime academy &#8211; is near to the Pelican Island Storage Terminal, and it briefly implemented a shelter-in-place plan to protect those on campus. The Galveston Daily News noted that over the past seven years, the university has filed more than a dozen air quality complaints with state environmental regulators about emissions emanating from the terminal.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>maritime-executive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Brief] On Tuesday, an explosion and fire at a tank farm adjacent to the Galveston Ship Channel resulted in two injuries, according to local officials. According to initial reports in local media, a work crew may have been conducting welding work near a tank containing heavy crude at the Pelican Island Storage Terminal. The blast &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[2561,5083,6547,6548,166,3318,1408,6546,1256],"class_list":["post-10155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-explosion","tag-galveston","tag-galveston-ship-channel","tag-injures","tag-oil","tag-refinery","tag-storage","tag-tank-farm","tag-terminal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/10156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}