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Men wading chest-deep through floodwater carrying self-igniting chemicals - by hand
Men wading chest-deep through floodwater carrying self-igniting chemicals - by hand
Fear that a known chemical risk would become uncontainable: four thousand containers of organic peroxides sat in sub-zero warehouses as floodwaters rose chest-high in Crosby, Texas, while every engineered backup failed. How did a plant with three independent safety layers end up handing combustible chemicals through waist-deep water - and who decided evacuation was the only option?
In this episode, we lay out the chronological record of the Arkema plant during Hurricane Harvey, describing the plant’s storage…
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