Afrin... A death and huge losses in a fire at a fuel refinery station

ARK News… A huge fire broke out at a fuel refining and selling station in Afrin, Syrian Kurdistan, and led to the loss of a boy’s life and significant material losses.

Private sources reported to ARK News, today, Wednesday that “a huge fire engulfed a gas station on the Afrin-Kafr Jannah Road,” adding that firefighting teams extinguished it.

The Syrian Civil Defense said in a statement that a huge fire broke out at a fuel refining and selling station on the Afrin-Izaz Road, stressing that the fire was the largest of its kind this month.

It added, "110 volunteers from the Syrian Civil Defense participated in the fire extinguishing operation, distributed among 15 teams, 3 fire engines, 13 fire tankers, 14 service and rapid intervention vehicles, 3 ambulances, two operating room vehicles, and a media team."

Pointing out that work to extinguish the fire continued for more than 4 hours, in light of great difficulties due to very high temperatures, heavy smoke, the spread of fire, and the explosion of fuel tanks at the station, which hindered the work of the teams and caused cases of suffocation among them.

According to the Syrian Civil Defense, “during the operations to put out the fire and after one of the station’s workers reported the loss of a 17-year-old boy, his body was found and handed over to his family. The fire resulted in major losses in the station, trucks transporting fuel, 5 tanks, and 9 tanks used for storage and filtering Fuel.”

Since the beginning of the current year 2023 in the regions of northwestern Syria, the fire brigades of the Syrian Civil Defense have extinguished 2,449 fires in 409 cities, towns and villages. These fires caused the death of 18 civilians, including 13 children and two women, and the injury of 105 civilians, including 28 children and 28 women, with burns and cases of suffocation.

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