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Deer Park terminal fire extinguished after three days of burning

A fire that broke out Sunday morning at a petrochemical storage facility in the industrial Houston suburb stopped burning overnight.

A thick layer of smoke hangs in the air from a fire burning at the Intercontinental Terminals Company in Deer Park, east of Houston, Texas, U.S., March 18, 2019.

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