The towering flame has greatly subsided, four days after a vehicle drove through a fence and struck an above-ground valve, causing a massive pipeline explosion.

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

Human remains were found inside an SUV that authorities say hit an aboveground valve on a pipeline in suburban Houston, causing a fire that has burned for four days, officials said Thursday. With the fire substantially smaller since it began on Monday,