Officials with the City of La Porte Office of Emergency Management crews responded to the scene on the 8700 block of Spencer Highway around 9:55 a.m. local time on Monday, Sept. 16. The impacted pipeline carried “natural gas liquids,” according to a statement from Energy Transfer, shared by authorities. Deer Park police said a chemical called Y Grade NGL is what is burning.
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00:30The product in the pipeline is just going to have to burn off.
00:57They've shut the pipeline down, and until all the product that's in that pipeline burns
01:03off, it will be hours, if not into tonight or tomorrow.
01:08It'll be a while before it goes out, but it's just something that we're going to have to
01:12wait until all that's burned out.