Uganda: Road Tankers Fire Incident at Entebbe Airport
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Sunday, 13 December 2009 |
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Local media have reported that road tankers delivering aviation fuel to
the fuel handling and storage facility at Entebbe Airport went on fire.
Reports from usually reliable sources within the aviation industry
and the Civil Aviation Authority have indicated that either one or two
fuel trucks apparently burst into flames, when approaching the airport
fuel discharge docking station, where the tankers from Kenya normally
offload their cargo.
JetA1 fuel is carried by road from Kenya in the absence of
pipeline extension from existing fuel distribution
infrastructure. It could not be ascertained at this stage what
led to the accident, nor if any people have come to harm.
Initial feedback from the airport speaks of an evacuation of nearby
buildings as a precaution, although the fire was apparently contained
at the scene of the outbreak and the swift reaction by the Entebbe
Airport Fire Brigade and the Entebbe Municipal Fire Brigade helped to
avoid a spreading of the fire to other areas or to the main fuel
reservoir and pumping installations.
PetrolWorld 131209
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