After an oil field tank battery explosion killed a 14-year-old girl, Louisiana regulators have put new rules in place for the storage tanks and are launching a campaign to identify all of them statewide.Oil field tank batteries are storage sites for oil wells that aren’t connected to major pipelines. The large metal tanks can hold hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude oil, and can give off flammable fumes.But Zalee Gail Day-Smith and her friends were apparently unaware of those dangers, because they frequently hung out in and around one of the tanks near her mom’s house in the Ragley community, between DeRidder and Lake Charles. State Police investigators believe Day-Smith was sitting on the tank when it exploded on Feb. 28, killing her. She had…
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