Chemical blaze put out in E China
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| Rescuers work at the site where a fire occurred at the Jiangsu Deqiao Storage Co., Ltd.in Jingjiang City, east China's Jiangsu Province, April 22, 2016. A fire occurred at the storage site on Friday morning. A tank exploded later with a suffocating smell that forced rescuers to retreat from the site. No casualties were reported and rescuers were still trying to get the blaze under control as of noon. [Photo:Xinhua/Li Xiang] |
Firefighters put out a blaze in a chemical storage facility in east China's Jiangsu Province on Saturday morning, 16 hours after it started.
The fire, which began around 9:40 a.m. on Friday in Jingjiang City, was put out at 1:50 a.m. on Saturday after firefighters from nearby cities Shanghai, Nanjing, Nantong, Suzhou and Wuxi were mobilized to help.
With chemical storage tanks destroyed and their contents spreading over a wide area, firefighters had difficulty approaching for a while.
They curbed the blaze after the valve of an oil pipeline was shut off. No casualties have been reported.
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