Mumbai: Massive fire envelops Indian Oil depot
Twenty fire engines rushed to the accident place after receiving the fire alert at around 2 am on Jan 17. However, no casualties have been reported so far.
According the sources, the fire emerged in containers that were holding lubricant oil and the officials are now afraid that if the fire spreads, it will envelop large tanks holding diesel which have been kept just 50 metres away.
List
of
major
fire
accidents
This
is
not
the
first
time
that
such
accident
happened
in
Indian
Oil
Corporation's
depots.
In
2009,
similar
kind
of
incident
was
reported
in
Jaipur
in
which
at
least
10
people
were
dead
and
more
than
hundred
were
injured.
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Story first published: Tuesday, January 18, 2011, 12:57 [IST]