fuel tank storage fire santos brazil
© Reuters/Paulo WhitakerSmoke rises from a fire at a fuel tank storage facility run by Ultracargo in Santos near Sao Paulo, April 2, 2015.
A fire at a fuel storage facility near Brazil's largest port Santos entered its fourth day on Sunday as 110 firefighters worked to stop the flames from spreading further, the local fire department said.

Six fuel tanks run by Ultracargo, owned by Brazil's Grupo Ultra, were hit since the blaze started on Thursday morning, sending a column of thick black smoke into the air. Three of them were still burning on Sunday, the fire department and Ultracargo said.

Firefighters said there was little they could do to extinguish the flames before all the fuel was consumed. Instead, they were focusing on dousing nearby tanks to keep the fire from spreading.

Fuel storage tank fire brazil
Eighty firefighters were battling a fire at a fuel tank storage facility run by Ultracargo near Brazil’s port of Santos, Latin America’s largest, the local fire service said on Thursday. The company said there had been no victims from the fire and it was too early to say what had caused it.
Traffic was diverted around the site of the blaze, blocking one of the roads to the port.

Trucks carrying soybeans and other commodities were still able to deliver their goods via a second entrance, a spokeswoman for the Santos port said. She added that only two of the port's docks were out of service due to the fire, while the other 53 were operating normally.