Pipeline fire in Deer Park: Residents evacuated in La Porte [Video]

“I went out there and I looked and when I saw the fire, I got so scared. I have never been panicked like that before,” Chandra Thom said.

LA PORTE, Texas — Crews are still battling a raging pipeline fire in the Deer Park area that started just before 10 Monday morning.

Four people, including a firefighter, were injured, according to the City of Deer Park. Two of them were taken to area hospitals.

The fire is burning near the Brookglen neighborhood at Spencer Highway near East Boulevard in La Porte. Hundreds of residents between Luella Dr. and Canada and Spencer Highway and Oakhaven/Eagle Run were advised to evacuate. Heritage Elementary and College Park Elementary were also evacuated, along with a nearby H-E-B and Walmart.

Firefighters were spraying nearby homes to try and protect them but smoke could be seen coming from some rooftops.

“The fire, it’s very hot, so a lot of the house structures that are adjacent to that are still catching on fire …