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...witness likened the enormous ball of fire to a nuclear explosion. A truck driver thought it looked as if "a rocket just took off." Shortly before midnight on the day after the Fourth of July, a devastating explosion leveled a block-square section of the 564-acre Atlantic Richfield chemical plant in Channelview, Texas, east of Houston. At least 17 workers died. The blast occurred while crews were working near tanks that hold petrochemical residues and waste water from the plant...
Only one other person was in view, a man in shorts with a water truck, standing alone in the road trying, through smarting eyes, to contain the flames with a hose. Alone, he aimed his hose at waves of flame that crashed like waves around us, now coming to a crest, and now, for a while, subsiding, until suddenly they were there again, leaping over a ridge and bearing down upon...
Soon we were gagging at the fumes. The cat was panting feverishly, we were hosing down our van and our bodies with water from the truck. I had never before known how swift fire could be, and how efficient. Occasionally, the air would clear, and we would see the blue above the mountains; then the smoke was around us again, and a column of orange looming above. Someone pointed out that the one book we'd inadvertently managed to bring with us was called All the Right Places...
...about two hours, two of us with Minnie in the van, while the other two heroically battled the flames. The fire surged up the hill like dogs jumping at a fence. A helicopter appeared, but then was lost again in the smoke and the spitting ashes. A fire truck came up the road at last, but its consolation was brief: we could not go down the hill, they said, nor up. We squeezed together in the van, Verdi playing on the radio, and watched my room turn into a gutted skeleton...
...deal could reach $600 million. Yet that will represent only part of GM's foray into Eastern Europe. Among other deals, the automaker plans to produce 200,000 engines and 20,000 Opels a year in Hungary in a $150 million venture with RABA, the country's state-owned truck manufacturer...