| As we told you at the top of the newscast - there was a fire at a mini butane depot on the Western Highway this evening at around five. It is at mile four and a half on the western Highway immediately beside Bravo Motors.
The business was not operational - but there were four butane tanks there with LPG gas inside - and one of the hoses was ruptured.
It caused a major, violent blaze - but we have now been told there was no explosion.
George Orellana saw it from his home across the road. Here's what he told us:
Marion Ali, Reporter
"You were on the scene and you took some pretty nice videos."
George Orellana
"I was the first one who saw the tanks burning. Looks like the workers were not well trained because they ran away instead of minimized the damages, they just ran away. My workers are the ones who came and help the first truck from the firefighters who came to the scene."
Monica Bodden
"From what you saw out there, how long did it take firefighters to arrive on the scene?"
George Orellana
"About 20 minutes I think."
Monica Bodden
"When they arrived your workers still had to help them?"
George Orellana
"The thing is that just one truck arrived with two guys and they came in here to my property - that's the only place to get water because everywhere else was kind of far so they came in. Thank God that I was here because usually I have my gate closed - my gate was open and they came through and my guys helped them to come into the property and connect the hoses in the sea."
Marion Ali, Reporter
"This incident happens, it's not something that occurs every day or even every month - that it happens and it happens within such close proximity to you and your company and your staff. How does that alert you?"
George Orellana
"The thing is that I work for Puma Energy and Puma Energy trained us well in case of fire or oil spill or whenever we have problems with fuels we are well trained from Puma Energy. That's what I was talking to Assistant Commissioner Aragon that whoever owns these types of businesses - there supposed to be mandatory training for the workers because it was just a small fire. The fire started in a small house next to the tanks and instead of minimizing - they should have extinguishers just to minimize the damages but instead of trying to avoid that they just ran way and left the fire. "
Our team is just back and Tomorrow we'll have the full story plus footage of the blaze at its height.
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