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.

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,

The Deer Park Police Department said the incident involving a vehicle that crashed into a natural gas pipeline in Houston, Texas and ignited a massive fireball is now a criminal investigation.