An Iranian information company is reporting {that a} huge fireplace at an oil refinery close to Tehran was extinguished after greater than 20 hours
TEHRAN, Iran — An enormous fireplace that broke out at an oil refinery close to Iran’s capital and despatched an enormous plume of black smoke into the sky over Tehran was extinguished on Thursday, after greater than 20 hours, a information company reported.
The semi-official ISNA company quoted the nation’s deputy oil minister, Alireza Sadeghabadi as saying the blaze was first absolutely contained after which lastly put out.
“The brave actions by firefighters … led to the entire extinguishing of the hearth and prevented the flames from spreading to different close by tanks,” stated Sadeghabadi, thanking the hearth division.
The hearth erupted on the state-owned Tondgooyan Petrochemical Co. to the south of Tehran on Wednesday night time. The Oil Ministry’s SHANA information company stated it was attributable to a leak in two waste tanks on the facility. Authorities initially recommended the flames affected a liquified petroleum gasoline pipeline on the refinery.
Jalal Maleki, spokesman for the Tehran Hearth Division, instructed state TV that 10 fireplace division stations, together with 60 heavy working autos and greater than 180 firefighters, took half within the operation to battle the blaze.
The top of Tehran’s emergency medical providers, Payman Saberian, stated 11 individuals have been injured, with 4 in hospitals, ISNA reported.
Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh visited the scene in a single day. Whereas searching for to guarantee the general public the hearth wouldn’t have an effect on manufacturing, Iranians queued up for gasoline on Thursday morning, the beginning of the weekend within the Islamic Republic.
Earlier, SHANA additionally quoted refinery spokesman Shaker Khafaei as saying authorities hoped the hearth would extinguish itself after operating out of gas within the coming hours.
Temperatures in Tehran reached practically 40 levels Celsius (104 levels Fahrenheit) on Wednesday. Scorching summer time climate in Iran has triggered fires previously.
The blaze got here the identical day a hearth struck the most important warship within the Iranian navy, which later sank within the Gulf of Oman.