Houston Chemical Blaze Intensifies After Loss of Water Pressure

A fire at a petrochemical storage facility that’s covered Houston in a thick pall of smoke for the past two days intensified overnight after firefighters briefly lost water pressure.

Two additional storage tanks are ablaze, bringing the total to eight, Intercontinental Terminals Co., the facility’s owner, said in an update in the early hours of Tuesday. The water pressure was subsequently restored and additional help in fighting the fire is expected to be on hand later this morning, it said.

The blaze is affecting tanks that store liquids used to make gasoline. The Deer Park facility, about 18 miles east ...