JAKARTA, Indonesia - Firefighters extinguished a massive fire at a fuel depot in the Indonesian capital on Monday morning after a day, fires burned hundreds of thousands of gallons of gasoline.
The fire sent clouds of black smoke billowing over the city at its peak, but firefighters managed to contain a conflagration of the six huge storage tanks at the depot.
"Only one tank was in flames in the fire. The other six tanks are safe," said Toharso, secretary of the state oil company Pertamina.
Pertamina lost about 2,500 kiloliters (660,000 gallons) of unleaded petrol over the fire, Toharso said.
Despite the declaration of Jakarta Pertamina had sufficient fuel reserves to last a week, Jakartans lined up in the area as gas stations tank fire Sunday. The company still has about 52,000 kiloliters hand to serve the capital, Toharso said.
He ordered officials to evacuate nearby residents, ordered the power supply to the vicinity to avoid any flare-up and cordoned off the area.
Authorities were investigating the cause of the fire.
Last October, the Indonesian police arrested five suspected militants said they were planning to attack the depot.
The alleged militants were believed to have links with Al Qaeda-linked terrorist network, Jemaah Islamiyah, which aims to create a Muslim "superstate" in much of Southeast Asia.
Authorities blame Jemaah Islamiyah for the Bali nightclub bombings in 2002 that killed more than 200 tourists, most of them Westerners. Investigators also suspect the group in the attacks in Jakarta in Australia Embassy and JW Marriott Hotel.