A Jefferson County judge has extended the temporary restraining orders in a case related to the TPC Group explosions.

Judge Mitch Templeton of the 172dn State District Court signed the orders earlier this week that calls for preserving evidence. This new motion extends the orders indefinitely.

“It was important to work out an agreement preserving all potential evidence long term in the case. It will be weeks before the area is likely to be safe enough to conduct a comprehensive investigation on site with our process safety management experts, and even longer before we are able to initiate production of the thousands and thousands of relevant documents and conduct formal depositions of witnesses,” said Brent Coon of the law firm Brent Coon & Associates. “The main goals early in a case of this nature is to make sure we have court orders in place protecting this critical information.”

Coon went on to state the firm is moving forward on other less formal investigations through interviews with witnesses, people familiar with the facility and initial contacts with the various state and federal investigative agencies, most of which we have worked with numerous times in the past.

BCA made the original motion for the TRO last week and the new extension was signed this week.

In addition, the law firm will hold a series of town hall meetings for clients and other interested parties.

There are two meetings set for Monday — one at 4:30 p.m. and one for 6:30 p.m. at the Groves Community Center, 6150 39th St., Groves.

Other meetings will be held in Port Neches in the coming months.

BCA is representing a number of clients in a class action suit against TPC and a wrongful death type suit as well.

The law firm is one of a number of firms taking on TPC, which had two explosions Nov. 27 at the Port Neches facility that broke windows and doors and led to a shelter-in-place, evacuations and the canceling of classes in the Port Neches-Groves Independent School District.

An update from the Unified Command stated on Friday that small fires, which were reported on Dec. 6, continue to burn, are contained and have not increased in intensity since their discovery.

Air monitoring readings remain below actionable levels.

In addition, portions of Spur 136 near TPC remains closed including the intersection of Spur 136 and FM 366, Spur 136 to FM 366 in front of the TPC Port Neches Operations and FM 366 between Spur 136 and Park Street.