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This giant and the biggest storage tank explosion surprisingly did not kill anyone but injured 43 employees.
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In Buncefield, the vapour cloud formed due to the spillage of 300 tonnes of winter grade MS followed by the overfilling of the storage tank 912, which found an ignition source in a nearby car park leading to the first explosion, followed by a series of explosions that engulfed over 20 storage tanks. The similarity in both these incidents is that they resulted from vapour cloud explosions. Huge monetary losses were incurred, with complete destruction of major areas of the installations. First is the Buncefield incident in 2005, followed by IOC Jaipur fire in 2009. Two such accidents that happened in the oil terminals four years apart gained greater significance worldwide. Many of those fires have had engulfed a lot of peoples’ lives.
Since 1966 and before that, there had been a lot of fire accidents reported till date. Fire being an essential element in man’s life has not only helped in building up lives but also have taken up a lot of lives.
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