Extinguishing a fire that broke out as a result of a tank explosion in the Syrian Company for the Transport of Crude Oil in Homs

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The members of the Fire Brigade and Civil Defense in Homs this evening put out a big fire that broke out as a result of the explosion of a tanker in the Syrian Company for the Transport of Crude Oil in the province of Homs, and its damage was limited to materials.

SANA's correspondent indicated that the explosion occurred inside the company at the emptying tanks during the emptying of fuel tanks loaded with crude oil, which led to a fire that spread over a large area as the firefighting and civil defense teams rushed and dealt with it with all their energies to control it and within a short period of time it was cordoned off and extinguished.

The Minister of Oil, Eng. Bassam Tohme, said in a statement to the Syrian channel that the explosion occurred in one of the tanks that transport oil to the Homs refinery and unloaded its cargo in the Syrian Oil Transport Company, where the fire spread to a number of other tanks, stressing that there were no casualties and that the damage was limited to the materials and the investigation is underway to find out the causes. The explosion.

The Minister of Oil pointed out that the losses are limited to a number of tanks that transport oil after armed terrorist groups sabotaged the oil pipelines network in the past, which forced the company to use the tanks to secure the operation of the Homs refinery, indicating that this method is unsafe and not universally approved.

The governor of Homs, Eng. Bassam Parsik, said in a statement to SANA that the cause of the explosion so far is unknown, as it happened during the emptying of one of the "BS" tanks into a ground tank, pointing out that the firefighting teams constructed an earthen berm to prevent the fire from spreading to the neighboring residential areas and all fire trucks went In Homs to the site to control the fire and extinguish it in the shortest possible time.

Engineer Qusay Diab, Head of the Fire Extinguishing Division at the Homs Refinery, indicated that the cars belonging to the refinery regiment went to deal with the fire and all the cadres are in a state of alert and the fire is cooled and monitored.

He pointed out that the members of the Homs Fire Brigade, Sadcob, Crude Oil and Homs Refinery participated in extinguishing and controlling the fire by using the specialized foam material to extinguish the petroleum materials.

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