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Updated: 12:17 PM Mar 11, 2010
Firefighters battle blaze at oil disposal facility
The two westbound lanes of Middlebrook Pike were closed temporarily Thursday morning as Knoxville Firefighters battled a fire that erupted just after 10:00 at an oil disposal depot near Ed Shouse Rd., according to Knoxville Fire Capt. D.J. Corcoran.
Posted: 10:34 AM Mar 11, 2010Reporter: Michael Grider Email Address: michael.grider@wvlt-tv.com |
A fire broke out at the Enterprise Oil facility on Middlebrook Pike around 10 a.m. Thursday, March 11, 2010. (Photo: Volunteer TV Photojournalist Herb Goss)
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) -- The two westbound lanes of Middlebrook Pike were closed temporarily Thursday morning as Knoxville Firefighters battled a fire that erupted just after 10:00 at an oil disposal depot near Ed Shouse Rd., according to Knoxville Fire Capt. D.J. Corcoran.
Initial reports to 911 dispatchers indicated that a fire had ignited outside of a building at the Enterprise Oil site located at 5201 North Middlebrook Pike.
According to their Web site, the Enterprise Oil facility "is a combination of storage and processing tanks. In our process used oil is heated, chemically treated, and filtered to produce a cleaner and more easily burned on-spec industrial fuel."
A Knoxville Fire Department Hazardous Materials unit was dispatched to the scene.
It's not clear what started the blaze.
Volunteer TV News has a crew on the scene and will have a complete update on Volunteer TV News at Noon and up-to-the-minute updates on VolunteerTV.com.
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I work next door to this fire and there was a strong odor of gasoline just before an explosion and then the fire. At least 2 co-workers felt the explosion looked out the door at work and saw the flames. We evacuated our building as a precaution.
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