Two get thermal burns as E Kazakhstan grain elevator catches fire
12:43, 11 November 2012
ASTANA. November 11. KAZINFORM 40 tons of sunflower seeds went on fire in a drying machine at the Zashchitinsk grain elevator in Ust-Kamenogorsk on Saturday (November 10), the Kazakh Ministry of Emergencies reports.
It took the East Kazakhstan Emergencies Department nine hours to put out the fire at the elevator.
The fire area is to be determined. Two workers, 25 and 37, got thermal burns, the younger one was admitted to a hospital.