A fire broke out at a Russian oil refinery

A fire broke out at the Mendeleev refinery in the Yaroslavl region. RIA Novosti reports.

The message about the fire at the refinery was received at 20.00 Saturday, March 6. The firefighters who arrived at the scene of the emergency found out that two tanks with oil products with a volume of 600 cubic meters had caught fire.

No casualties. There was no threat of an oil spill.

The fire has now been extinguished. Rescuers have begun to spill the structures.