plume of smoke from chemical fire A plume of smoke rises in the air following a fire at the Intercontinental Terminals Co (ITC) petrochemical storage site in City, Texas, on Tuesday, March 19, 2019. (Photo: Scott Dalton/Bloomberg)

Firefighters confronted with the worst Gulf Coast industrial disaster in 14 years had to call on outside sources to augment their supply of the special foam required to extinguish chemical blazes.

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