Aerial view of the flaming Diamond Shamrock refinery near Sunray, Texas, in July 1956.
Photo Courtesy of Valero
On a fatal Sunday morning in July 1956, a 15,000-barrel pumpkin-shaped spheroid tank containing about 500,000 gallons of mixed pentane and hexane caught fire.The plant fire brigade and volunteers from the nearby Texas panhandle communities of Sunray and Dumas responded to what evolved into a combination ground and vent fire.
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