According to sources a major fire broke out at an Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Limited gas processing plant in Uran area near mumbai, killing three CISF personnel and injuring eight others. Meanwhile according to officials, one CISF jawan is critically injured and all the injured were rushed to a nearby hospital where they are undergoing treatment. Furthermore the ONGC has posted a tweet confirming that the fire was doused successfully within two hours by firefighting team and the tweet confirmed that the fire broke out in storm water drainage unit of the plant.
The tweet posted by ONGC on its official handle read "Fire broke out in storm water drainage in Uran Plant early morning successfully doused within two hours by fire fighting team. #ONGC ’s robust crisis mitigation preparedness helped put off this major fire in a very short time”. Reportedly the fire broke out at around 7.20 am, following which the firefighting operations were initiated. People living near the plant were evacuated by the authorities to prevent any large scale damage.
Moreover confirming the incident, ONGC had earlier posted on micro blogging site Twitter, "A fire broke out in storm water drainage early morning 2day in Uran oil & gas processing plant. ONGC fire services & crisis management team immediately pressed in2 action. Fire is being contained. No impact on Oil processing. Perhaps the fire wing of CISF had received information at around 6:50 AM that a fire has broken out at ONGC and a team of CISF personnel immediately rushed to the spot to douse the fire. Also an explosion took place in a pipeline as soon as the CISF personnel reached the spot, killing three CISF personnel and injuring one.
