A big fireplace that burned on the Benicia Port for about 24 hours final weekend seems to be unintentional in nature, although its actual trigger stays below investigation, the town’s fireplace chief stated Tuesday.
The fireplace broke out round 12:20 p.m. Saturday close to the Amports terminal on the base of a silo used for petroleum coke, additionally referred to as petcoke, an oil refining byproduct, then unfold alongside a conveyor belt to the dock, the place it started burning alongside the underside of the pier.
Crews from a number of fireplace departments across the Bay Area responded to assist put out the blaze, which wasn’t extinguished till about 12:20 p.m. Sunday, metropolis officers stated.
Benicia Fire Chief Josh Chadwick stated {that electrical} and mechanical causes have not but been dominated out as attainable causes of the fireplace.
The Solano County Office of Emergency Services and the county’s Department of Environmental Health, the state’s Office of Emergency Services and Department of Fish and Wildlife, the U.S. Coast Guard, Bay Area Air Quality Management District and workers from the Valero refinery and Amports all responded to the blaze and plenty of of these businesses will probably be concerned in the injury evaluation and cleanup of the location, based on the town.