Major fire at IOC Hazira oil tank(Video)
January 05, 2013
Surat, 5 January, 2013
A fire erupted and spread at a fuel storage terminal of state-run Indian Oil Corp in Hazira in Gujarat on Saturday. The tank where the blaze started had about 5,000 kilolitres of gasoline, almost half of its capacity, when it caught fire.
No casualties were reported from the fire, whose cause was not immediately clear. The Hazira terminal has nine storage tanks – five gasoline and four diesel.
“Because of wind the fire has spread to another petrol tank. We can see smoke coming out of second petrol tank as well. It had substantial volumes,” said N Srikumar, executive director at the company.
Srikumar had said earlier that Indian Oil was looking into the cause of the fire that broke out in the afternoon and that authorities were trying to cool the other tankers at the depot by sprinkling water on them.
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