Three days after an SUV crashed into a liquid natural gas pipeline, starting a fire that was finally extinguished Thursday, police say human remains were recovered from the vehicle on Thursday. “The Deer Park Police Department was able to access the site and remove the white vehicle associated with the pipeline fire incident,

A fire that burned for four days after a pipeline explosion in the Houston suburbs burned out Thursday after the once-towering blaze put hundreds of nearby homes under evacuation orders. Investigators say the fire began after the driver of an SUV went through a fence alongside a Walmart parking lot and struck an above-ground valve.

With the fire substantially smaller since it began on Monday, police were able to access the area around the pipeline in Deer Park.