HOUSTON—A fire at the 10,250 barrel-per-day Silver Eagle refinery near Salt Lake City, Utah, was extinguished late Wednesday morning, according to a fire department official.
A 9:10 a.m. MST explosion at the refinery in Woods Cross, Utah, knocked three nearby houses off their foundations, said Deputy Fire Chief Jeff Bassett of the South Davis Metro Fire Department.
A company representative was not immediately available to discuss refinery operations.
No injuries were reported from blast and ensuing fire. The explosion caused a brief power outage that affected three nearby refineries.
"We were very lucky, very fortunate there were no injuries," Bassett said.
A preliminary investigation found the explosion occurred after a liquid containing a mix of diesel and hydrogen, which was released from a pipe on a unit, flowed across the ground to a furnace where the liquid ignited, he said.
"We don't know yet if it was a failure of the pipe or a leak which let it get on to the ground and then to the furnace," Bassett said.
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