NBC: lightning caused a fire at an oil depot in the US state of Louisiana
In the US state of Louisiana, a lightning strike ignited a fuel tank, informs NBC channel.
The fire started on Saturday afternoon, June 3, at the Calcasieu Refining oil depot in Lake Charles. As a result of the fire, no one was injured, however, due to smoke, the authorities decided to evacuate people living within a radius of 2.5 kilometers from the fire site. People living within a radius of five kilometers were asked not to leave their homes until the fire was extinguished.
Louisiana police determined that a lightning strike was the cause of the tank fire. By ten o’clock Saturday evening the fire still had not been extinguished. Calcasieu Refining has not yet commented on the incident.
Earlier it was reported that in Brandenburg, Germany, a forest fire broke out on the territory of a former military training ground where ammunition is located. Firefighters could not get to the place to extinguish the fire because of the danger of explosions.
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