Authorities reported that the fire at the oil depot in Tikhoretsk had been extinguished.

The fire at the oil depot in Tikhoretsk, which caught fire after a drone attack, has been extinguished.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," in the Tikhoretsk district of Krasnodar Krai, an oil depot caught fire on the night of March 12 as a result of a drone crash. The fire covered an area of ​​150 square meters. By day, the fire had grown to 3,800 square meters. Sanitary authorities advised local residents to stay indoors and close their windows. Rospotrebnadzor found that airborne pollutants exceeded permissible levels. By nightfall, firefighters had failed to reduce the size of the fire at an oil depot in the suburbs of Tikhoretsk, and additional resources were called in to fight the blaze.

At 6:21 a.m. Moscow time on March 13, the fire was contained to an area of ​​3,800 square meters, and at 7:12 a.m. Moscow time, the open flames were extinguished, the Krasnodar Krai task force reported today.

At 9:15 a.m. Moscow time, the fire was extinguished, Anatoly Perepelin, head of the Tikhoretsk district, announced on his Telegram channel.

273 people and 72 pieces of equipment were involved in extinguishing the fire, including specialists from the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the Krasnodar Territory.

The Tikhoretskaya oil terminal is one of the largest industrial hubs in southern Russia, designed for the reception, temporary storage, and subsequent transportation of oil and petroleum products, according to "Gorizontalnaya Rossiya" (listed as a foreign agent).

Any fire of this scale poses a threat to human health, noted Valery Brinikh, head of the Adygea branch of the All-Russian Society for Nature Conservation. "The danger to the population, as with any fire, is smoke. The air can contain elevated concentrations of hazardous substances, making it difficult to breathe and potentially damaging to the lungs. In this case, there are also all sorts of man-made problems, because diesel fuel and other substances are burning, and the entire periodic table could be involved," he told the "Caucasian Knot" earlier.