UPDATE: This is your future Dallas. A gas release so extreme it looks like a fire. Welcome to GASLAND.
There is a fire at a gas well in the 1700 block of Debbie Lane in Mansfield. Two schools are on red alert.
UPDATE: The red alert has been lifted.
Brockett Elementary and Coble Middle School were put on alert, the district says, after a gas leak was detected at a well near the 1700-block of Debbie Lane.
The source of the leak turned out to be a mixture of gas and steam being released from a nearby well site.
Thad Penkala with the Mansfield Police Department said they are happy to see that all of the safety measures in place near the well worked as designed.
The fire department determined the gas dissipated enough to not pose a threat to the schools or nearby neighborhood and the scene was cleared.
Oh, just a gas leak and, of course, it all dissipated. You might want to check out what happened in Argyle and Bartonville when they have those gas leaks and “dissipate.”
Photo credit DMN Scoop:
Oh WHEW! It’s just more of that “steam.”
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I have good friends with kids at those schools. The Mansfield ISD schools that my kids go to have gas wells within a mile of both of them.
I’ve said this countless times – soemone is going to have to get killed. We’ll never know how dangerous this leak was – whoever the driller was will never say (hell – the news stories don’t even identify them).
There are going to have to be bodies before the lap dogs in the news get serious about what is going on.
@Tillotson – The article stated the operator is Carrizzo and that it took them 32 minutes to arrive at the scene.
These are the same individuals that were at the Arlington City Council meetings recently to complain about the fees that the fire department wants to implement for emergency response. I’m glad the operators are not being allowed to be our first responders with a 32 minute response time.
Not one of those “news” stories seems to tell the entire story. They have been in flowback operations on Debbie Lane according to Mansfield’s Gas Drilling Activity Report (as of March 19, 2012). They call it Pad ID #31. Take a look at Page 2 of the document below to see all the padsites (57 are listed and that’s a lot of sites and even more wells).
http://www.mansfield-tx.gov/efiles/Departments/Planning%20and%20Zoning/updates/GasWellDrillingActivityReport.pdf
The Railroad Commission GIS Map for the Mansfield, TX area tells a scary story:
http://westchestergasette.blogspot.com/2011/10/welcome-to-mansfield-texas.html
And, it’s OK to have gas wells as close as 500 feet from schools in some cities & towns? Shelter in place may not be enough in such cases. And, what if a release like that suddenly explodes?
I think there’s going to have to be either ‘some bodies’, as in more than 1, or at least one child killed before people wake up to the fact that there are high explosives, poorly maintained parked next to their children for 8 hours a day. So, it’s not really a question of IF or even WHEN, but WHOSE CHILD is going to be the sacrifice? I’m not trying to be an alarmist, but this is just the reality. It’s reality because Industry makes dirty deals with schools for their land and minerals, and then set up shop next to the schools.
I left two comments on this FWST article. Both were deleted, as well as the other individuals’ comments which were not controversial at all. One was a reply to someone who was questioning methane being odorless. I explained the process of injecting water, chemicals, and sand at an approximate depth of 9,000 ft. and then what flows back, which would have an odor. Perhaps the Startlegram doesn’t want their readers to be startled. Please go into that article and post away!! But be civil, of course.
Never mind my previous comment. They are there now. Must have been a computer glitch.
FWST Editorial about this:
http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/03/26/3836654/firefighters-had-to-be-ready-for.html