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Indian Navy and others fight to douse Vizag bio-diesel tank fire

| | Apr 27, 2016, at 08:07 pm
Visakhapatnam, Apr 27 (IBNS) To control the huge fire that is raging in the Biomax Company located in the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Visakhapatnam, 12 fire tenders of the Indian Navy have been pressed into service, announced the Ministry of Defence on Wednesday.
On Tuesday late evening, a huge fire broke out in 12 bio-diesel tanks of Biomax Company, which is located in Vizag's Duvvada SEZ.   
 
On getting the news from the state administration, the Eastern Naval Command launched two aircraft for aerial reconnaissance and assessment of the extent of fire. 
 
Navy's Quick Reaction Teams (QRT) and an ambulance with medical teams were rushed to the site of the fire accident along with the fire tenders. 
 
Naval hospital, INHS Kalyani has been kept on standby for providing assistance in case of medical emergency. 
 
Fire tenders are being replenished and turned around. 
 
Additional fire tenders are kept standby for deployment.
 
Fire tenders from Visakhapatnam Steel Plant and the Port Trust have also been helping in the fire fighting, according to local reports.
 
According to media reports, there is no news of any casualty yet.

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