Jaipur: The casualty count in the Jaipur inferno has reached 10, since it started off on Thursday. Over 60 hours after the fire started at the Indian Oil depot, it still rages on.
Two more bodies were recovered on Sunday.
The fire is now 10-20 feet - subsiding from its earlier height of 40 metres - but its heat is spreading horizontally.
The fire had also spread to an adjacent factory, but army and civilian authorities managed to douse it in time.
People within a radius of 3 kms of the site have been evacuated.
How it happened:
Two more bodies were recovered on Sunday.
The fire is now 10-20 feet - subsiding from its earlier height of 40 metres - but its heat is spreading horizontally.
People within a radius of 3 kms of the site have been evacuated.
How it happened:
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- 6:45 pm, Thursday: A leakage was detected in IOC depot in Jaipur. For next 40 minutes engineers tried to repair it.
- 7:30 pm, Thursday: The first container exploded, causing a mild quake measuring 2.3 on the Richter scale
- 8:00 pm, Thursday: The fire became uncontrollable; 40-feet high flames in the night sky; buildings 1km away damaged
- 9:00 pm, Thursday: Entire area evacuated; huge traffic jams on Jaipur-Kota highway, which passes through Sitapura
- 10:30pm, Thursday: All 11 containers exploded, each turning into an inferno.
- 11:30 pm, Thursday: Intensity of fire began to drop. Flames were as high as 20 feet high.
- 12:00 am, Friday: Fire raged all night, the strategy now was to let the fuel burn out.
- 7:30 am, Friday: Fire experts from Mumbai, Mathura arrive
- 8:00 am, Friday: Fire in smaller containers down by 30-40% of what it was last night.
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