In Sevastopol on the night of April 28 to 29 caught fire petrol tank. The fire area was 1,000 square meters. meters – fire is assigned the fourth class of danger. According to initial information, a drone attack was the cause of the fire.
“A fuel tank is on fire near Manganari Brothers Street in Kazachya Bay microdistrict. According to preliminary information, the fire was caused by drone fire,” he said. writing Sevastopol Governor Mikhail Razvozhaev on his Telegram channel on Saturday morning.
As Razvozhaev also said, 18 firefighters were involved in eliminating the flame. Civil installations like reported TASS in the governor’s press service, the fire at the oil storage facility is not in danger. The oil depot fire was preceded by a loud explosion, “It thundered quite loudly around 4 a.m. From this cotton, my neighbors and I woke up and saw a huge flame from the sea. Tall, you could see it from afar, said “RIA Novosti Crimea” local resident Sergey. According to him, the place of the fire is hundreds of meters from homes. A diving school and a port are located there. How report According to eyewitnesses, a column of black smoke from a fire in an oil depot is visible several kilometers from the site of the fire. According to Governor Razvozhaev, it is not possible to quickly eliminate the flame due to the large ignition surface. By P cataract Governor, the fire will be completely extinguished by 6:00 p.m. Saturday. Sevastopol authorities decided not to evacuate residents from the area where the tank farm is on fire, reported TASS in the press service of the city governor. The interlocutor of the agency said that measurements of the maximum permissible concentration of harmful substances in the air will be carried out. The fire will not affect Sevastopol’s fuel supply, Razvozhaev also said. At 10 a.m. the Governor of Sevastopol informed that the fire has been contained. As a result, four fuel tanks were damaged. On Monday April 24, Sevastopol was also attacked by drones. Then, as claimed by the Russian Defense Ministry, the Ukrainian armed forces attacked the base of the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol using three high-speed “unmanned boats”. The attack was repelled by anti-submarine and sabotage support forces on the way to the city bay.
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