Ahmedabad: It isn’t often that people manage to keep their cool and think clearly in the face of grave danger. But the driver of a petrol tanker did the same and in the process avoided a catastrophe that could have killed many people.
The driver drove the tanker out of a petrol pump to the main road after he realised that the vehicle was on fire. The incident happened at a petrol pump located near Vishala circle when the Bharat Petroleum tanker with a capacity of 12,000 litres was pouring petrol into an underground tank of the petrol pump.
Sources said that the tanker had already pumped in 4,000 litres of petrol pump into the tank, when the driver of the tanker saw a spark in the rear of the tanker. Soon the tanker caught fire.
As the fire spread three rickshaws and a Maruti car in the vicinity also caught fire following which a pandemonium ensued.But the driver unmindful of the danger he was in drove the vehicle to the main road to prevent the fire from spreading within the petrol pump. Within minutes 35 personnel of the Ahmedabad Fire and Emergency Services (AFES) reached the spot.Five AFES tankers and two fire fighters also reached the spot.
Chief fire officer MF Dastoor said that the top of the petrol tanker had been kept open because of which the fire did not claim any lives.
It took the fire brigade around an hour to control the fire. Sources said that petrol was being sold to vehicles even when the underground tank was being filled up by the tanker.
This is a violation of rules.
Source: DnaIndia
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