Firefighters battled a massive fire that broke out Thursday in several fuel tanks located at a storage facility in an industrial part of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
The Associated Press reports more than 80 firefighters worked to extinguish the blaze at the facility run by Ultracargo. According to local fire services the inferno started around 10 a.m. local time at Brazil’s port of Santos, one of the largest in Latin America.
The company said in a statement to Reuters that the area around the fire had been evacuated and no victims had been reported in the incident. The company says it was too early to determine what caused the fire.
Ultracargo is the largest liquid storage company in Brazil and is owned by parent company Grupo Ultra. The storage facility holds up to 301,300 cubic metres of fuels, chemicals, vegetable oils, ethanol and corrosive products, the company’s website said.
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