The fire, which started from a fuel pipe at a fuel storage depot, quickly spread to nearby houses and sent residents in the densely populated area into a panic.
The fire, which started at around 8 pm on Friday from a fuel pipe at Pertamina's Plumpang fuel storage depot in capital Jakarta, quickly spread to nearby houses and sent residents in the densely populated area into panic.
The fire had been extinguished by early morning hours on Saturday, North Jakarta fire fighter official Abdul Wahid said. "All facilities, whether refineries or storage, must be audited again," he said on KompasTV, noting that Pertamina often had fire incidents at its facilities.Sugeng also said there should be a bigger distance between Pertamina's storage facilities and residential areas."For a facility with Plumpang's capacity, there should be at least one to two kilometres distance with residential area.
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