Firefighters try to extinguish flame at a chemical storage of Deqiao Storage Company in Jingjiang City, east China's Jiangsu Province, April 23, 2016. Blaze has been fully put down by 1:50 a.m. on April 23 and no casualties are reported. The fire occurred around 9 a.m. on April 22. (Photo: Xinhua/Li Xiang)
Firefighters put out a blaze in a chemical storage facility in east China's Jiangsu Province on Saturday morning, 16 hours after it started.
The fire, which began around 9:40 a.m. on Friday in Jingjiang City, was put out at 1:50 a.m. on Saturday after firefighters from nearby cities Shanghai, Nanjing, Nantong, Suzhou and Wuxi were mobilized to help.
With chemical storage tanks destroyed and their contents spreading over a wide area, firefighters had difficulty approaching for a while.
They curbed the blaze after the valve of an oil pipeline was shut off. No casualties have been reported.
