Fire is out at refinery on Mississippi

CONVENT, La. — A fire Thursday at a refinery along the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge has been extinguished.

The blaze began in the H-Oil unit at about 10:50 a.m., said Angela Goodwin, a spokeswoman for Motiva’s Convent Refinery. What sparked the fire remains under investigation, she said.

She said other units in the refinery were unaffected and remained operational.

“All employees are accounted for, and there are no injuries,” she said.