TURKEY: TURKISH AND INTERNATIONAL FIREFIGHTERS PUT OUTOIL REFINERY FIRE CAUSED BY EARTHQUAKE

Record ID: 344621

  • Title: TURKEY: TURKISH AND INTERNATIONAL FIREFIGHTERS PUT OUTOIL REFINERY FIRE CAUSED BY EARTHQUAKE
  • Date: 21st August 1999
  • Summary: IZMIT, TURKEY (AUGUST 21, 1999) (REUTERS) 1. WIDE OF OIL REFINERY WITH SMOKE BILLOWING 0.05 2. CLOSER VIEW OF SMOKE FROM REFINERY (2 SHOTS) 0.14 3. SLV FIREFIGHTERS AT SCENE 0.18 4. SLV OIL STORAGE TANK BUCKLED FROM THE FIRE 0.22 5. SLV FIRE ENGINE ARRIVING 0.27 6. WIDE OF SCENE/ OIL STORAGE TANK (2 SHOTS) 0.35 7. SLV COLUMNS OF MILITARY VEHICLES WITH TURKISH GOVERNMENT TROOPS ARRIVING (9 SHOTS) 1.27 8. WIDE OF DEMOLISHED BUILDING SITE 1.31 9. SLV RESCUE WORKERS WITH CRANES AND BULLDOZERS ON SITE (2 SHOTS) 1.41 10. HAS RESCUE WORKERS ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE BODY (9 SHOTS) 2.12 11. HAS CORPSE WRAPPED IN BODY BAG REMOVED FROM SCENE 2.16 12. WIDE OF SITE /CRANES (2 SHOTS) 2.24 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 5th September 1999 13:00
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  • Location: IZMIT, TURKEY
  • Country: Turkey
  • Reuters ID: LVA295WNK8THS5OMBCUPZE9JI667
  • Story Text: Turkish and international fire fighters have finally
    put out a blaze at Turkey's biggest oil refinery that has
    raged since the earthquake struck on Tuesday.

    And columns of Turkish government troops have arrived in
    Izmit, after criticism of the government's slowness in
    reacting to the disaster.

    But, as the quake death toll continues to mount, a British
    rescue team faced the grim task of retrieving the bodies of a
    mother and her baby from the ruins of their home.

    The fire at Turkey's biggest oil refinery in Izmit, 90
    km (55 miles) east of Istanbul, was completely out on Saturday
    (August 21), the company's general manager told reporters.

    The fire had threatened the city with explosions and
    pollution, sending flames and dense smoke high into the air.

    Damping down operations would continue at the refinery
    complex until the temperature in the tanks and surrounding
    installations had been reduced, Husametting Danis told
    Reuters.He said this process could take between 24 and 30 hours.

    A light smoke lingered over the city, and firefighting
    planes and engines hosed tanks down with water.

    A Turkish military convoy rolled into Izmit on Saturday,
    as the public and media debated whether the nation's powerful
    military had been slow to react to a disaster that wrecked
    communications and roads across seven of the country's most
    populous provinces.

    As search and rescue teams all but gave up hope of finding
    more survivors, and with water and sewage systems badly
    damaged, the government and aid agencies feared an outbreak of
    disease.


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