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To: paul feldman who wrote (38480)	2/28/1999 10:19:00 AM
From: Razorbak	Respond to of 95453

Calls for Temporary Shutdown During Investigation Interesting article... sfgate.com Speaking of refinery fires, anyone here besides me ever been working inside a refinery when something exploded and started to burn? I remember two incidents. On the first, I was working inside Exxon's Baytown, Texas refinery, and I had five square miles of territory in which to run, yet it still semed claustrophobic. On the second, I was in the main office building when a fire started at one of the pipestills inside the plant over a mile away. Employees within the building were watching from their office windows as fire engines and emergency rescue vehicles poured into the refinery. Suddenly, another fireball erupted (approximately forty feet high), and I remember everyone in the office ducking just in case the window blew in from the blast's shock wave. Fortunately no one died in either incident, but boy those were scary days. Glad I no longer work in that environment. Razor