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Massive fire at Sharjah Port
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Massive fire at Sharjah Port
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Residents in Sharjah woke up yesterday morning to thick black smoke billowing up into the
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sky after a massive fire that gutted an oil depot in Port Khalid.
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Sharjah police said the fire broke out at 2.30 early on Saturday morning at the premises
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of the Emirates Oil Refining Company.
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The blaze gutted more than 10,000 square meters at what port workers say was a sunflower oil
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storage facility.
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Officials say three workers were injured but no one is believed to have been seriously
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hurt.
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About six employees were working in the depot when the fire broke out.
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Specialist offshore firefighters tackled the blaze throughout the night and into Saturday
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afternoon.
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Nearby tugboats sprayed seawater onto the smouldering fire.
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It was still raging at around 2pm on Saturday, 14 hours after it started.
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It's a major fire and one that officials say could have sparked an even bigger one.
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It was just 200 meters away from a nearby oil storage facility.
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Nevertheless, officials have said the port will remain open for business while forensic
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teams carry out an investigation into the fire.
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It's the second such incident in as many years.
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A huge fire also gutted the depot of another oil company in August last year.
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Ashaf Helmi, Gulf News.
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