LONDON, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Firefighters battling a raging fire at a fuel depot in southeastern England said Monday they had extinguished 10 of 20 blazes with foam and water.
Many of the 2,000 people living near the Buncefield site near Hemel Hempstead who were evacuated Sunday morning remained out of their homes, Sky News reported.
"This is one of the most complex and largest fires ever fought -- certainly in this country," said Hertfordshire Police Chief Frank Whitely.
He said the cause of the initial blast on the 100-acre site is being treated as an accident.
Two people were seriously injured among 43 casualties after flames shot hundreds of feet into the sky following the blasts, that were so powerful they were in heard across the British Channel in France and Holland.
Twenty of the facility's 26 containers, filled with 60 million gallons of diesel, kerosene and gasoline exploded and burned, sending flames more than 200 feet high as helpless firefighters watched, The Guardian said.
