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Two Texas children were injured Sunday in a Pampa gas explosion. Pampa is about 56 miles east of Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle.
The names of the injured children were not released to the public.
The Pampa gas explosion occurred shortly after 4 p.m. in the area of East Foster, just east of downtown Pampa.
Officials for the City of Pampa said fire crews were dispatched to that location on possible burn injuries from a possible gas explosion.
One of the injured children was taken to the Pampa Regional Medical Center with minor burn injuries. The other child was flown to the UMC Burn Center in Lubbock with severe burn injuries.
Lubbock is about 180 miles southwest of Pampa. The Texas Tech University’s UMC Burn Center is the only burn unit between Dallas and Phoenix.
Pampa gas explosion:
Panhandle has history
The Texas Panhandle has seen its share of devastating industrial explosions, including:
- A 1987 explosion at the Celanese plant in Pampa in which three people were killed.
- A 1977 explosion at the Pantex Plant that claimed the lives of three workers. The plant is about 40 miles southwest of Pampa.
- A 1969 explosion at the Northern Natural natural gas processing plant in Sunray that killed one man and injured seven. The blast was caused by a leak in the engine room. Sunray is about 70 miles northwest of Pampa.
- A 1956 explosion that killed almost 20 firefighters at the McKee Plant north of Dumas. The plant is about 80 miles northwest of Pampa.
Pampa gas explosion:
Three dead, 40 hurt in ’87
At about 4 p.m. on Nov. 15, 1987, two explosions ripped through the Hoechst Celanese plant, killing three men and injuring 40.
The blasts shattered windows for miles around the plant, forcing the evacuation of dozens of nearby residents.
“One minute I was standing up, and the next minute I was on the ground,” Kingsmill resident Richard Minton said at the time. “The blast was so strong it sucked the door in, knocked our clock off the wall and blew that heater out the window.”
The Celanese plant, which opened in 1953 and produced numerous industrial chemicals, shut down chemical manufacturing in 1990 but is now undergoing a multi-million-dollar transformation.
Pampa gas explosion:
Explosives accident in ’77
On March 30, 1977, three Pantex workers were killed in a high-explosives machining accident.
Pantex, which assembles and dismantles nuclear weapons, incorporated new safety procedures into its machining processes in the wake of the accident.
Pampa gas explosion:
Statue erected after ’56 blast
A statue on the grounds of the Texas Capitol in Austin is dedicated to the memory of 19 firefighters who died in a series of explosions and fires July 29, 1956, at the McKee plant, 12 miles northeast of Dumas.
A fire at the tank farm was reported at about 6 a.m. that day to volunteer fire departments in Dumas and Sunray. Shortly after 7 a.m., a tank exploded as the men, mostly volunteers, battled the blazes.
The McKee Refinery is now owned and operated by Valero.
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