Contra Costa eyes tank farm regulations after NuStar fire

A Contra Costa County official has clarified comments he made during a Board of Supervisors meeting about whether workers at the NuStar Energy tank farm in Crockett called county hazardous materials officials immediately after a fire erupted at the farm this month.

Randy Sawyer, chief environmental health and hazardous materials officer for Contra Costa Health Services, now says NuStar employees called his office at 2:36 p.m. on Oct. 15 after the fire broke out about 1:50 p.m. Sawyer said his office called the NuStar facility in Pittsburg in the moments after the fire was first reported after nobody answered at the location of the fire.