Elsewhere in Texas, one person was killed, and two others were hospitalized, after a blast tore through a chemical plant outside of Houston on Tuesday. The fire at the plant in Crosby, which produces a highly flammable gas used in the production of jet fuel, was the second such fire at a Houston-area chemical plant in less than three weeks. On March 17, a massive fire at a petrochemical plant in Deer Creek sent a cloud of toxic smoke over Houston and as far away as Austin, 150 miles to the west.