Fire Brokeout at Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) Navi Mumbai depot today on Jan 18, 2011. Indian Oil Corporation depot underwent a fire blast at Taloja in Navi Mumbai in the early morning hours, destroying around 40,000 litres of lubricant oil. In October 2009 also a fire had brokout at an IOC depot near Jaipur and left 10 people dead.
The fire broke out at around 1 AM and about 25-30 fire engines were rushed to the spot to putoff the flames, a fire brigade official said.
“The blaze began from containers containing lubricant oil. Thousands of drums with 200 litres capacity each, stored in the godown caught fire and it destroyed around 40,000 litres of lubricant oil,” the official said.
No casualties have been reported, the official said, adding, the flames have been partially brought under control and fire fighting operations are on.


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