Venezuela’s Vice Minister for Risk Management and Civil Protection, Carlos Pérez Ampueda, reported on Monday that a fire has broken out at a refinery in the Paraguaná peninsula, located in Falcón state, in the north of the country.
This was confirmed by Pérez Ampueda in a press release, detailing that the local authorities are already carrying out the tasks of extinguishing the fire.
«National Risk Management System executes fire extinguishing maneuvers in the waste lagoon located in the Cardón Refinery in Paraguaná, Falcón state,» the Venezuelan deputy minister stated in his Twitter account.
In this sense, he detailed that, with the fire confined for its extinction – and with no possibility of it spreading – no casualties or injuries have been reported.
So far, it has not been revealed what caused the fire at the refinery.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
