Firefighters extingush final blazing tank at British oil depot

Firefighters battling a massive fuel depot fire near London said they had extinguished the final blazing tanks. Flames were still leaping high into the twilight sky from burning fuel at the depot near Hemel Hempstead, 25 miles (40 kilometres) northwest of London, on Tuesday.

Nearly 60 hours after Sunday's gigantic pre-dawn explosions at the Buncefield depot sent dark smoke billowing over southeast England, all 20 of the container tank fires were out.

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