Incident Report

Subject:                   Fire-fighters respond to oil storage fire in Jefferson Davis County

Date of Email report:   Sun 11/03/2012

Report Detail:

The fire involved two crude oil storage tanks containing over 800 barrels or 33,600 gallons of crude oil owned by the Penn Virginia Oil & Gas Corp

The Collins Fire Department Special Operations Response team extinguished a crude oil fire Wednesday in Jefferson Davis County.  The department got a call Wednesday morning from Penn Virginia Oil and Gas Corp., requesting assistance with a storage tank fire on Shivers-Booth Road, according to a press release. The department maintains specialized training and a large contingency of specialized industrial and petroleum fire-fighting equipment and foam concentrate to combat hydrocarbon and fossil fuel fires.  The fire was extinguished in less than an hour from the initial call.

The cause of the fire, which started in two oil tanks that held more than 33,000 gallons of crude oil, is still under investigation.  Prentiss Fire Department, Jefferson Davis Emergency Management Agency, the state oil and gas board and several volunteer departments also responded.

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