快讯：德州炼油厂大爆炸，住房墙壁剧烈摇晃（图）

倍可亲(backchina.com)美国德州Alon USA炼油厂2月18日上午发生爆炸意外，连三英里外的房屋都能感受到爆炸的震动。

根据路透社最新消息指出，市长表示意外中没有人死亡，但有四人受伤。

目前火势已得到控制。

此爆炸案发生在德州Big Spring市，该地约在达拉斯与埃尔帕索的中间，根据CNN的现场画面，炼油厂上方的天空积聚了因爆炸产生的巨大蕈状浓烟，遮盖了大半的天空，厂内还可见到火光。

稍早消息指出，爆炸案里至少有一人受伤，伤者已被送往医院，但此人的情况还未知。

　　

来源：Big Spring Herald
Big Spring市长Russ McEwen的妻子Laura McEwen表示，意外非常吓人，住房的墙壁都在摇晃，就像地震，想到还会让人发抖。Laura McEwen一家住在离炼油厂两英里外的地方。

炼油厂约有170名员工，每日制造约70,000桶的油。

炼油厂附近的20号州际公路目前封闭。

　　

来源：i-Report
AP Press: Explosion at Texas oil refinery hurts 4

BIG SPRING, Texas - An explosion rocked an oil refinery Monday in a violent blast that shook buildings miles away and injured at least four people, the mayor said.

All workers were accounted for about an hour after the explosion, said Blake Lewis, spokesman for refinery owner Alon USA.

Lewis initially said one worker was injured, but Big Spring Mayor Russ McEwen later said four were hurt. McEwen said one of the workers was sent to a burn unit.

The fire sparked by the blast was under control Monday morning, Lewis said. The Dallas-based company does not know what caused the explosion, he said.

The blast sent black smoke billowing into the sky, closed schools, shut down a major interstate and left residents rattled.

"It was extremely scary. You shook you were so scared," said Laura McEwen, the mayor's wife who lives about two miles from the refinery. "Our walls shook. It jolted your bed. It was like an earthquake."

John Moseley, managing editor of the Big Spring Herald whose downtown office is also about two miles from the refinery, said, "I thought it would knock the walls down."

Two elementary schools were evacuated, then classes were canceled at all nine campuses in the Big Spring school district, assistant superintendent Carie Dunnam said.

Classes also were canceled at Howard College, according to the two-year junior college's Web site.

The explosion forced open the doors of the school district's administration building about four miles from the plant, Dunnam said.

"Literally pieces of my ceiling came on top of my head," she said.

Bus routes were affected by road closures and that emergency officials were warning of the potential for more explosions, Dunnam said. Parents were asked to pick up their children, she said.

The refinery employs about 170 people and has the capacity to put out about 70,000 barrels a day.

Interstate 20 was shut down near the plant, Big Spring police spokesman Roger Sweatt said.

"There's some fire and a whole bunch of smoke," Sweatt said.

Big Spring is about halfway between Dallas and El Paso.