An oil slick that spread across thousands of miles of the Gulf of Mexico drew upon two of the leading names in industrial fire protection — Williams Fire & Hazard Control and Wild Well Control.
On Jan. 11, 1974, Les and Dwight Williams joined forces in Port Neches, Texas to fight their first big storage tank fire as a team. The results made history, but not the way that firefighters had hoped.
North Carolina responders praised for putting out tank farm.
Kansas volunteers push their luck fighting an oil field tank fire.
A vapor blast sweeps through Puerto Rico terminal.
An over-pressurized batch reactor blows apart in Florida, killing four.
The name Pasadena remains most notably linked with a flowery New Year’s Day parade in California. If ever a disaster deserved sole rights to co-opt a community's name, it would be the explosion and fire that rocked the other Pasadena in October 1989.
Los Angeles County Fire Department responders were forced to deal with a fire in a 679-foot tunnel used to move petroleum coke beneath a busy rail corridor.
In July 1984, explosions and fire at an Illinois refinery claimed 17 lives. Of those, 11 who died were industrial responders, the most ever lost in a single incident.
Sugar refinery explosion brings firefighters together.
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