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Major fire breaks out at petrol storage facility in Surat

Source: PTI
January 05, 2013 19:33 IST
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A major fire broke out on Saturday at a petrol storage tank of state-owned Indian Oil Corp's Hazira terminal in Gujarat.

No casualty was reported immediately. Local authorities and the company rushed fire tenders to douse the fire.

Officials said the fire was reported around afternoon at one of IOC's five petrol storage tanks at the Hazira depot. The tank had almost 5,000 kilolitre of petrol, half of its capacity, when it caught fire.

This is the second major fire at IOC storage depots since 2009. On October 29, 2009, a fire broke out at its Jaipur terminal, which was blamed on non-observance of normal safety procedures. The Jaipur depot fire raged for 11 days, killed 11 people and resulted in losses worth Rs 280 crore.

Senior IOC officials have rushed to Hazira to supervise operations and an inquiry has been ordered to ascertain its causes.

Hazira is a so-called 'white-oil terminal', housing a tank farm to store petrol and diesel. It has five petrol storage tanks and four diesel tanks.

While local administration rushed fire brigade personnel from Surat and nearby cities, IOC has sent fire tenders from its Koyali refinery to douse the fire.

"The fire has been isolated," a company official said. "A high-level team has been constituted to investigate the cause of the fire but our first priority is to put out the fire...efforts are on at war footing."

A senior team from Mumbai too is rushing to the site of accident.

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