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Fire damages petroleum oil storage facility in St. Rose; no injuries reported
Fire happened at International-Matex Tank Terminals in St. Rose
BY CARLIE KOLLATH WELLS | STAFF WRITER PUBLISHED JUN 13, 2022 AT 8:27 AM | UPDATED JUN 13, 2022 AT 8:47 AM Comments

A fire damaged part of a petroleum fuel oil storage facility Sunday night in St. Rose, St. Charles Parish officials said.

The fire is out and no injuries have been reported, they said.

The fire was reported at 8:45 p.m. at the International-Matex Tank Terminals. It involved a petroleum fuel oil piping manifold at the company's storage terminal, parish officials said. 

Employees at the facility brought the fire under control by 9:15 p.m. and extinguished it soon after that. The company has an in-house emergency response team that is trained to handle industrial fires, according to IMTT.

Monitoring air quality
All personnel have been accounted for, officials said, and the company has activated its emergency response plan.

The facility at 11842 River Road is used to store liquid products such as petroleum, vegetable oil and alcohol.

The company, according to parish leaders, is monitoring ambient air quality near the facility and "does not anticipate any off-site impacts as a result of the fire."
Previous fire in 2020
The facility had a fire almost two years ago at its pump pit. The pit is a concrete containment area for the pumps that move the liquids to and from above-ground storage tanks, a company official said at the time. 

No one was injured in that fire and no air quality issues were immediately reported at the time.

The shipping and storage company, founded in 1939 in Avondale by James J. Coleman Sr., was sold by the Coleman family in 2014 for $1 billion to a division of the Australian Macquarie Group.

Riverstone Holdings, a private equity firm, paid about $2.7 billion to acquire IMTT in November 2020.

IMTT's headquarters are in Poydras Plaza in New Orleans. As of March 2021, the company had about 220 employees in Louisiana.

Staff writer Michelle Hunter contributed to this story.

https://www.lobservateur.com/2022/06/13/st-charles-parish-statement-regarding-fire-at-st-rose-tank-terminal-facility/
St. Charles Parish statement regarding fire at St. Rose tank terminal facility
Published 6:22 am Monday, June 13, 2022

By special.to


St. Rose- At approximately 8:45 p.m. on June 12, International-Matex Tank Terminals experienced a fire that impacted a petroleum fuel oil piping manifold at its St. Rose, LA storage terminal. IMTT personnel brought the fire under control by 9:15 p.m and it was extinguished shortly thereafter.

All personnel on-site have been accounted for and no injuries have been reported. The company immediately activated its emergency response plan and notified the appropriate officials and agencies.

IMTT is monitoring ambient air quality near the facility and does not anticipate any off-site impacts as a result of the fire. The company is currently investigating the cause of the fire.

Please direct any media inquiries to David LaPlante, dlaplante@hdaissues.com.

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