Local Roy Hancock (left), Deputy State Fire Marshall Pete Adcock (center) and Deputy Sheriff Lt. Cline Wyman are on the scene outside of an oil well storage facility after an oil tank explosion was reported in Flora, Miss., Friday, July 29, 2022. Six people were seriously injured, two of whom were airlifted to local hospitals.

Six people were injured in an oil tank explosion Friday morning at an oil well storage facility on Virlilia Road in Flora.

“Two were transported by helicopter and four by ambulances,” said Minor Norman Madison County fire coordinator.

Norman said the two people transported by air ambulance were seriously injured.

An emergency services vehicle blocks the entrance outside of an oil well storage facility after an oil tank explosion was reported in Flora, Miss., Friday, July 29, 2022. Six people were seriously injured, two of whom were airlifted to local hospitals.

The call came in at approximately 7:50 a.m. Friday and upon arrival, they learned a fiberglass oil tank with a capacity to hold approximately 33,000 gallons had exploded, Norman said.

“They had changed out two tanks and replaced them with new fiberglass tanks and one of the tanks this morning … had blown up and is no longer here,” Norman said.

Norman later told Darkhorse Press Mississippi Crime & Community News that the tanks did not have much fluid in them at the time of the explosion and that workers were “doing maintenance on two new parts that held water from an oil well. … One of those oil tanks exploded, creating a fire bomb.”



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