The fire in suburban Houston has burned for four days and forced nearly 1,000 homes to be evacuated. The fire is expected to be extinguished Thursday evening

The white SUV drove through a fence on the west side of the Walmart parking lot and struck an above-ground pipeline valve around 10 a.m. Monday. A fire erupted and residual product from the isolated pipeline has continued to burn off.

The city of Deer Park later confirmed that a white sport utility vehicle had driven through a fence on the west side of Wal-Mart’s parking lot located at 9025 Spencer Hwy. The vehicle entered the adjacent pipeline right-of-way and struck an above-ground pipeline valve.