A large fireball erupted at an oil refinery after an explosion in Louisiana on Tuesday night. Plant owners Exxon said no one was hurt in the explosion at the refinery in Baton Rouge but enormous flames could be seen shooting…
The report does not blame individual firefighters, stating that they were faced “with a situation for which they had not properly been prepared or trained”. Fewer people may have died in Grenfell Tower if the London Fire Brigade had not stuck so…
More than 16,000 people have been forced to flee their homes after massive explosions at a military depot in Siberia left 12 people injured and one missing. Russian officials said 9,533 people have been evacuated and about 7,000 fled on…
Aerial footage taken on has revealed the scale of devastation after a huge explosion ripped through a gas factory in central China's Henan Province. The explosion took place at an air separation unit of the gas factory owned by the Henan Coal…
The massive blaze which engulfed three of the Kemaman Bitumen Company's (KBC) giant crude oil tanks at the KBC industrial area in Telok Kalong here for the past three days, has been successfully extinguished last night. https://youtu.be/pBYnvSk0cVs Terengganu Fire and…
Second operation gets under way to free more boys following the release of four on Sunday A fifth boy has emerged from a northern Thailand cave after a six-hour rescue operation on Monday, the UK Guardian has confirmed. Sources at…
The Indian Coast Guard has rescued all 22 crew member of a container ship following a major fire aboard the vessel while about 50 miles off the coast of India in the Bay of Bengal. The India-flagged SSL Kolkata reported…
MEXICO CITY, June 11 (Reuters) - Mexico’s Pemex said on Monday that a fire at its Minatitlan refinery was under control and the plants were operating normally. The state-run oil company said the fire at its facilities in the southern…
The initial explosion at Husky Energy's oil refinery in Superior took place in the fluid catalytic cracking unit, a senior advisor with the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board said Tuesday. "That is a part of the distillation process…
Five people are missing after a fiery explosion ripped through an eastern Oklahoma drilling rig on Monday, sending plumes of black smoke into the air and leaving a derrick crumpled on the ground, emergency officials said. More than 20 employees…
