Texas City Disaster

During the war, Texas City has become an important industrial center with seven petrochemical refineries, two oil pipeline companies, and the only tin smelter in the United States. The city is steadily growing. Schools are operated in a two-shift system like chemical factories. Industrial demand is high, safety standards are still low and inexperienced. In 1947 it became an important event remaining in the memory of the city. On 16th and 17th April, cataclysms will occur throughout the population and should not be forgotten even after years.

After the Texas City earthquake, very practical measures were implemented, including new precautionary measures and better ammonium nitrate labels, and in particular the modification of the Texas City port for handling petroleum in particular. But the legacy of this disaster is the most obvious, it is the subject of the first action against the United States. Just one year before the earthquake, after examining over 30 years, Congress passed the 1946 federal infringement lawsuit law. This provides citizens with compensation for federal employees' negligence and illegal behavior. In 1953, the case was heard at the Supreme Court. In the opinion of Dalehite of the United States v. Minority in the United States, the government is responsible for transporting fertilizer to Europe to ignore manufacturing, transportation and labeling and to restore the region, not warning the processors. The dangers of ammonium nitrate are neither monitored nor essential for safe transport and storage.

Grandcamp - On April 16, 1947, in Lexington, Texas, Texas, a Liberty ship registered in France fired and exploded in the dock. In the so-called Texas City disaster, estimated 581 people, including 581 crew members and 28 firefighters, were missing and about 5,000 injured. Doña Marilyn - On the afternoon of 24th October 1988 during the voyage from Manila to Tacloban, the ship was involved in Unsphin Typhoon, 389 people and 147 survivors died. Doña Marilyn is a sister ship of Doña Paz and sunk by the most deadly calm sea disaster a year ago.

Texas City has a full fire station since 1956. Prior to this, the staff of the fire department consisted of volunteers until the disaster of Texas City in 1947. After the disaster, this department has developed into a specialized department and several specialized departments. Before all occupations volunteer firefighters. Gerald Grimm is the current fire department headed a team of 60 firefighters. There are two front-line engine companies in Texas City, of which one-fifth is a 100-foot ladder, foam tank, 2,250 gpm pump, sturdy rescue - dangerous goods track, rescue truck, and boat. The Texas City fire department provides first responder EMS program, serving water rescue team, high angle rescue / limited space compliance unit, and dangerous goods correspondence unit. Texas City fire department is responding to an average of 4,600 aid requests per year.