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With the gas
tanker tragedy at Chala in Kannur district last week still fresh in their
minds, the people of Nilamel heaved a sigh of relief, as a tragedy many times
the magnitude of the Chala incident was averted on Monday.It
was a close shave for the petrol bunk of Hindustan Petroleum, adjacent to the
gutted shopping complex.The
8,500litre underground petrol tank in the bunk was in danger of exploding as it
was close to the gutted bus and motor cycles. The prompt efforts of the Fire
and Rescue Services personnel, Kollam Rural Police and local people prevented
the petrol pump and tank from going ablaze.
In the process they were preventing one of the deadliest tragedies in the
state’s history.The
fire which originated from the shopping complex started consuming the private
bus and three motor bikes parked at the petrol bunk, when the first batch of
Fire and Rescue Services personnel led by Leading Fireman T Vinod Kumar from
Kadakkal and police personnel from Chadayamangalam and Kadakkal reached the
spot.“When
the first unit reached the spot, the private bus and motor bikes were already
on fire.
The petrol pump and the tanker lorry were dangerously close to the blazing
vehicles.
Aqueous film forming foams (AFFF) was sprayed over the petrol tanks to prevent
the fire from spreading to fuel storages of the pump. The
petrol-laden lorry and another empty petrol tanker lorry were immediately
driven away to safety,” B Byju, Station Officer of the Kadakkal Fire Station
told ‘Express’.
Kadakkal SI Suneesh said that the initial effort was to prevent the fire from
spreading to the petrol pump rather than dousing the fire.“Had
the fire spread to the fuel tanks, the town would have been reduced to ashes.
It was miraculous that the fire did not spread to the underground petrol tank that
was dangerously close to the gutted private bus,” he said.Fire
tenders from Punalur, Varkala, Attingal, Chenkalchoola and Kadakkal were
pressed into service. Top officers of the Fire and Rescue Services and Police
reached the spot to supervise the operations.Kollam
Rural SP K B Balachandran, Punalur DySP John Kutty K L, Fire and Rescue
Services Divisional Officer R Prasad, District Fire Officer J Sujith Kumar,
Kadakkal CI Ramesh Kumar P V, Kottarakkara CI G D Vijayakumar, Ezhukone C I
Sadan K, Chadayamanagalam SI Shaja
Kumar, Kadakkal SI Suneesh reached the spot and led the operations.Home
Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan and Mullakkara Ratnakaran MLA, visited the
spot later in the day.
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