Posted on 02/12/2020 7:53:53 AM PST by deport
By WAFB Staff | February 12, 2020 at 12:40 AM CST - Updated February 12 at 8:13 AM BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A significant fire broke out at an ExxonMobil refinery in Baton Rouge late Tuesday night.
First reports of the fire began coming in around 11:50 p.m. on Feb. 11. The cause of the fire has not been determined.
There were no injuries and no off-site impact, officials say.
“The fire that occurred at the ExxonMobil Baton Rouge Refinery has been extinguished. There were no injuries much in part to the swift and safe response from our ExxonMobil volunteer fire team. ExxonMobil will continue to actively monitor the facility fence line and air quality in the surrounding areas of the North Baton Rouge community. All readings are non-detect. We apologize for any inconvenience and concern this incident may have caused. We will continue to keep you updated with information as it becomes available,” said Danny Lee, spokesperson for ExxonMobil.
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No outside impact?
Just raised gas prices, that’s all..................
Just raised gas prices, that’s all..................
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Yep that will be the major impact just as prices were going down.
Not much info as to cause, etc. but fortunately no injuries/deaths
I filled up Monday at Sam’s for $2.099 per gallon here in Ft. Walton Beach. It was the cheapest I have seen gas prices here in a long long time.
I was wonder what ‘incident’ would come along to jack them up again..........................
Yep, I saw some prices at $2.03 yesterday.
I saw $1.969 here in Tennessee this weekend
Be nice if it would stay this way or lower. But summertime is
coming and travel increases so look for gasoline price increases.
GMO
$1.98.9 at the Lake of the Ozarks.
Is it any wonder that no government investigation, state or federal has ever found evidence of manipulation of gas prices? It would be against their best interests since higher prices mean higher revenue for them too!
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