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Fire at oil pump station fire in western Siberia caused by lightning
Topic: Fire at West Siberian oil depository
23:21 22/08/2009
YEKATERINBURG, August 22 (RIA Novosti) - A fire at an oil pumping station in the Khanty Mansi autonomous district of western Siberia, which left five people injured was caused by a lightning strike, a spokesman for the Urals emergencies center said on Saturday.
"A lightning stroke a reservoir causing an explosion," he said adding that the fire spread to two neighboring reservoirs. The volume of each reservor is 20,000 cubic meters.
He also said 88 rescuers and 20 fire engines, who are involved in extinguishing the blaze, which currently covers some 1,800 meters.

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