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## Video: Texas Chemical Plant Explosion and Fire Prompts Shelter-in-Place Order

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_Published 2023-11-08. A massive explosion at a chemical plant in Shepherd, Texas caused a large fire and engulfed the area with thick, black smoke, prompting evacuations and a shelter-in-place order for the area._


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### Texas Chemical Plant Explodes

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## Transcript

We don't have an official statement. We're going to send something out after we get investigations done on we have preliminary investigations done on what initially happened but we want to verify everything. The last thing we need is a bunch of misinformation. We got a part of the community since 2014. We can play almost forty people and our biggest Focus right now. And what we're grateful for is that every one of those people are going to be home eating dinner with her family tonight. Would you have one employee that got hurt he's being treated for minor burns at Memorial. So he's in good hands.

He's being taken care of well, and that's really our biggest focused. The other thing. I'm here as a resource that really the First Responders have done an amazing job getting everything organized. They've been very cautious. They've made sure that everyone is safe. We've been over the Just about the situation. We do all fill chemicals with your Paint and Coatings chemicals. Hazardous materials. Yes, but there is the type of material. You probably have under your kitchen sink. It's not to be taken lightly. Obviously from what you say behind us not to be taken lightly, but they've been doing it well for a long time and we've always just wanted to be a positive part of the community and living forever going to do everything that we can to make sure that any one last question anyone who wants to know what happened what's going on.

We want to be open. We've been here a long time. We plan on rebuilding we plan on being at the positive part of the community for a very long time.

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