Fire at storage tank site in Texas
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From AP:
Two people were injured by a fire that burned two trucks and sent thick black smoke into the sky for more than an hour Monday at a salt water storage plant south of Fort Worth.
One person was taken by helicopter to a hospital with burns, said Gerald Mohr, emergency management coordinator for Johnson County. Another worker had some minor burns and was treated at the site, he said.
The fire started when a small engine on a machine somehow sparked the fire as the machine was being used to clean a pit where salt water and oil are separated, authorities said.
Sonia Morris, a dispatcher at the Bridgeport Tank Trucks Ltd. plant, said the facility stores salt water, which is used in the natural gas extraction process.
Keene is a community of about 5,200 in central Johnson County, about 25 miles south of Fort Worth.
