Industrial Fire - Moon Township (6/9/2003)

Moon Township Station 197 was dispatched at 5:51pm along with Valley EMS to the Buckeye Pipeline Facility on Narrows Run Road after an employee reported a fire in the research building. The employee advised dispatch that the building was located near a large propane tank as well as the fuel pumping station for the entire facility, which was shut off by another employee just before firefighters arrived.. The fire was quickly extinguished with special care taken to protect exposures. A major disaster was averted since the fuel pumping station near the fire building is the station that feeds the tank farm consisting several 4-million gallon storage tanks. The pumping station also controls the system that feeds the jet fuel to Pittsburgh International Airport. Allegheny County Fire Marshal is investigating but the cause appears to be accidental.

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