Texas port firefighters are still investigating the cause of a fire that occured at the Texas port, which melted a conveyor belt that was moving wood pellets onto a cargo ship
Wood pellets went ablaze at the Port of Port Arthur in eastern Texas yesterday afternoon, causing a massive fire on a conveyor belt near the German cargo ship Jobst Oldendorff.
Port firefighters arrived at the scene at around 3:00 p.m. local time and extinguished the blaze a couple hours later. No injuries have been reported.
While the ship was undamaged, the conveyor belt was completely melted.
According to the local 12News, Port Arthur firefighters are still investigating the cause of the fire.
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