Two storage tanks caught fire at the Marathon Petroleum refinery in south Louisiana

Footage of firefighters fighting the blaze went viral online. The fire has been contained, but has yet to be fully extinguished.

The authorities urged residents within a radius of three kilometers to evacuate, in the late afternoon the order to evacuate was canceled.

It would seem, well, what is interesting in this news, there all the time trains fly off the rails, then something burns. So yes, but the fact is that this is the third major fire this year at this oil refinery, which processes 596,000 barrels of oil per day. The owners decided to temporarily suspend the operation of some installations in order to find out what is the reason for such frequent fires. Well, this, in turn, provoked a sharp rise in prices for gasoline and diesel fuel in the futures markets.

According to preliminary information, two giant oil storage tanks caught fire after a chemical leak.