'Our Refinery Is On Fire': Two Brothers and a Deadly Explosion

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🗓️ 3 November 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Brothers Ben and Max Morrissey were killed over a year ago by an explosion at their workplace, an oil refinery co-owned and operated by the oil giant BP in Ohio. WSJ's Jenny Strasburg talks to family members the brothers left behind and investigates what went wrong at the refinery. Further Reading: -He Feared His Refinery Job. His Brother Stayed to Help. The Explosion Hit at 6:46 P.M. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Kate.
0:02.0	Today's episode is going to be hosted by our colleague Jenny Strasbourg.
0:07.0	She covers British Oil Company, BP. 9-0-1 where is an emergency?
0:17.0	Hi, I'm in Oregon off of Coy.
0:21.0	Last year on September 20th, in Oregon, Ohio, outside of Toledo.
0:26.0	There's like a gigantic black cloud of smoke.
0:30.0	It looks like something huge is on fire.
0:32.0	A fireball lit up the sky at 646 in the evening.
0:39.5	One of the town's oil refineries was belching black smoke and flames, a refinery that was co-owned
0:46.7	and operated by BP, the British oil giant.
0:52.0	911, where's your emergency?
0:54.0	Hello, I'm going to go over to BP refinery.
0:57.0	It looked like they had a big explosion over there.
1:00.0	People across Oregon peered from their cars and snapped photos from their backyards.
1:05.0	It's a very mercy. So we need to go to them now.
1:09.0	A set. Meanwhile, inside the refinery, chaos.
1:15.0	Crude 1, the heart of the complex, was in trouble.
1:19.0	We need EMS right now.
1:20.0	Yeah, what's going on, Mike?
1:22.0	What happened? Our refinery is on fire.
1:26.0	Okay, do you need the fire department too?
1:29.0	Um, yes.
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