Lightning Touches Off Crude Oil Storage Tank in Mississippi
Three adjacent tanks saved from ignition.
Three adjacent tanks saved from ignition.
Video shows fire circling the tank between the roof and shell.
Falling demand threatens to overwhelm available crude oil storage worldwide.
Neighbors reported hearing at least six explosions during the fire.
A small fire spread to a 10,000-gallon storage tank holding flammable product Tuesday morning at a chemical plant in Upper Merion, Pennsylvania.
Firefighters battled a persistent fire in a chemical storage tank.
At one point, flames covered a 1,000-square-meter area, city's mayor says.
A mechanical problem in the pump circulation system of an 80,000-barrel naphtha storage tank is suspected as the cause of the massive Intercontinental Terminals Company fire on the Houston Ship Channel in March, an update issued by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board states.
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