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Soon after the accident, the truck caught fire, so the driver immediately called the emergency number. Two fire trucks arrived at the scene 20 minutes later and started putting out the fire. A TV crew also arrived and started filming for a news program. Meanwhile, curious villagers gathered around the accident site.
September 16 – A truck missed a curve on a road and crashed into a gas transmission pipeline compressor station near Kings Mountain, North Carolina. There was an explosion and fire, and the two men in the truck were killed. [66] October 4 – A gasoline pipeline was ruptured by a bulldozer in Hobbs, New Mexico. The gasoline ignited, injuring ...
May 8, 2017 – Fire broke out at a tank for a fracking well near Greeley. [34] May 25, 2017 – An oil tank explosion and fire in northern Colorado killed a worker, and burned three others. [35] September 20, 2017 - A fire at oil tank farm in Weld County. [36] October 29, 2017 - An oil well near Berthoud, capped in 1984, began spilling ...
February 28 – Crude oil spilled from a ruptured pipeline leading to storage tank in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Some teen boys in the area saw crude oil bubbling out of manhole covers, and thought that igniting the oil would be a good idea. This caused a string of sewer explosions, causing manhole covers to fly 10 feet (3.0 m) into the air.
Shocking video showed the moment a speeding passenger train slammed into a Florida fire truck that drove past a warning gate onto the tracks, injuring 15 people, including three smoke eaters.
ExxonMobil lost a court bid Wednesday to truck millions of gallons of crude oil through central California — a crucial part of its efforts to restart offshore oil wells that were shut in 2015 ...
2010: Dalian Pipeline disaster – The explosion of two petroleum pipelines and subsequent fire in the port of Dalian, in northern China's Liaoning province on Saturday, on July 17, 2010, caused fatalities, damages and an ecological disaster, releasing 11,000 barrels of oil into the Yellow Sea, and covering up, according to different sources, from 50 to 430 km 2 of sea and coast lines.
Three firefighters and 12 train passengers were hospitalized after a Brightline train crashed with a fire truck in crowded downtown Delray Beach late Saturday morning. The crash took place about ...