From the archive record
A major fire erupted at Biomax Fuels Limited, a bio-diesel manufacturing unit in the Visakhapatnam SEZ, located at Duvvada. About 10 fire engines reached the spot and additional fire engines with chemical foam were requisitioned from HPCL, NTPC, the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant and the Eastern Naval Command, to fight the blaze. The Biomax facility at VSEZ has a manufacturing capacity of 5 lakh tonnes per annum from multi-feed stock, and is considered to be one of the biggest bio-diesel plants in the country. The storage tanks exploded one after other, as the raging fire spread from one tank to other. Fire-fighters were unable to make any progress on the ground till late in the night. Source: www.thehindu.com/ This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of W