A FIRE TRUCK responds to the oil well fire site off F.M. 2000. Tribune photo by Roy Sanders
SMOKE FROM THE oil well site explosion could be seen for miles.
An explosion occurred Tuesday morning, Jan, 14, off F.M. 2000 in Hix at an oil well owned by Magnolia Oil & Gas, destroying three oil tanks and a salt water tank.
Caldwell and Cooks Point volunteer firefighters responded to a private oil field road at 10880 F.M. 2000, got the blaze under control and contained it to the oil pad site with no damage to surrounding property, said Caldwell Fire Chie…
