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To: russwinter who wrote (17872)	8/19/2004 10:09:33 AM
From: Wyätt Gwyön	Respond to of 110194

Gas storage facility explodes; evacuations ordered The Associated Press MOSS BLUFF - An explosion early Thursday at an underground gas storage facility forced dozens of residents from their homes, authorities said. Roads were closed and houses within a one-mile radius were ordered evacuated after natural gas exploded at about 4 a.m. No injuries had been reported, said Cathy Jones, a dispatcher for the Liberty County Sheriff's Department. Residents beyond a one-mile radius of the plant were asked to stay in their homes. Witnesses said in broadcast reports that they saw a ball of fire from a bridge over the Trinity River. One person inside the facility at the time of the blast was able to escape, said Capt. Bill Tidwell of the Liberty County Sheriff's Department. "Everybody's been accounted for," he said. Emergency crews remained on the scene well past daybreak. A cause of the explosion has not been determined. The blast happened at Duke Energy's Moss Bluff storage site, Tidwell said. Two other storage tanks at the facility are not thought to be threatened, and crews have decided to let the gas burn, he said. Officials with Duke Energy did not immediately return a call seeking comment Thursday. Moss Bluff is about 40 miles northeast of Houston. The area is dotted with manmade caverns inside salt domes, which are the world's largest storage site for explosive hydrocarbons. One underground gas leak in 1980 forced 72 families from their homes in nearby Mont Belvieu for almost five months.