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Equipment Failure Blamed For Local Refinery Fire

ohiocitizen.org

Columbus fire officials blame an equipment failure for causing Sunday's blaze at an east side petroleum plant. Flames at the Heartland Petroleum facility on East Fifth Avenue were fueled by oil that leaked out of an overpressurized pipeline. No injuries are reported.  
 

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.