{"id":56059,"date":"2025-02-02T16:37:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T13:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=56059"},"modified":"2025-02-02T16:37:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T13:07:01","slug":"massive-explosion-reported-in-us-oil-refinery-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/56059\/massive-explosion-reported-in-us-oil-refinery-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive explosion reported in US oil refinery (+VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>All of the company\u2019s employees on site were accounted for; at a news conference around 5:20 p.m. \u2014 as warning sirens continued to sound in the background \u2014 Contra Costa County Fire Protection District Battalion Chief Bob Atlas said that three personnel had unspecified minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Atlas said that the fire was \u201cburning ferociously,\u201d with an unknown amount of fuel remaining and declined to provide an estimate on when the fire would be put out.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said that a leak of hydrocarbons ignited the fire. There was not more information available Saturday evening about the cause of the leak or the type of fuel burning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny smoke that burns, any combustible element, is going to be toxic at some point,\u201d Atlas said at the news conference. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to ascertain right now what exactly is in that stream of smoke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Crews rushed to the Martinez Refining Company at 3495 Pacheco Blvd. after the first call about 1:47 p.m., Atlas said. Fire Prevention Capt. Ted Leach said crews had difficulty locating the precise source of the flames when they got to the refinery.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the trouble pinpointing the blaze, Atlas said it was \u201cnot anything more than would normally be involved in industrial firefighting. There\u2019s a lot of heavy steel in there, there\u2019s a lot of materials that are in there, so getting to the scene of the fire takes a little bit of time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Flames were shooting some 200 feet into the air and giant black clouds were moving east with the wind, according to witnesses. Employees from the refinery were evacuated and could be seen gathered on Pacheco Boulevard, near the facility.<\/p>\n<p>MNA\/<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of the company\u2019s employees on site were accounted for; at a news conference around 5:20 p.m. \u2014 as warning sirens continued to sound in the background \u2014 Contra Costa County Fire Protection District Battalion Chief Bob Atlas said that three personnel had unspecified minor injuries. Atlas said that the fire was \u201cburning ferociously,\u201d with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7103,7100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accidents-en","category-international-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}