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Two-Alarm Fire at Alta Resources Well Pad in Lycoming County, PA
A glycol dehydration unit (removes water vapor from natural gas) caught fire at an Alta Resources well pad in Lycoming County, PA, on Saturday. The two-alarm blaze was noticed by a passerby Saturday morning. Multiple fire departments responded and fortunately, nobody was hurt. The fire did not spread beyond the glycol dehydration unit.
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Coincidentally, a second dehydration unit fire occurred early Saturday morning, also in Pennsylvania, but this second fire occurred across the state in southwest PA. Our lead story today is about a dehydration unit fire at a well pad in Lycoming County (see Two-Alarm Fire at Alta Resources Well Pad in Lycoming County, PA). The second fire happened at a dehydration unit at a compressor station in Greene County owned and operated by Equitrans Midstream.
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