The medical laboratory section of Kaltungo General Hospital in Gombe State was on Thursday razed down by an inferno.
 Speaking at the scene of incident on Friday, Principal Medical Officer(PNO) of the hospital, Dr. Joseph Mathew said the fire started around 9:00pm on Thursday and was immediately reported to the fire service office in Kaltungo. 
“There were series of explosion in the laboratory and unfortunately before we arrived the damage has been done and only few things were recovered,” he lamented.
 He explained that the inferno was caused by a kerosene refrigerator donated to the hospital two years ago by a Non-governmental organization.
 The PNO said the Emir of Kaltungo, Chairman and other important personalities were at the scene trying to put off the inferno.
 Some of the items destroyed are chemistry analyzer, CD4 machine, freezers, desktop computers and blood mixer incubator among other equipments.

EDMOND — A dust cloud and a kerosene heater caused an explosion that injured four employees Thursday morning at an Edmond manufacturing business, a fire official said.

Edmond Fire Maj. Kelly Lewis said shortly before 9 a.m. one of the machines at NOV Tuboscope, 3600 S. Kelly, near the 33rd Street-Kelly intersection, became clogged and maintenance workers were attempting to clear the obstruction.

A pipe became disconnected and the polymer, a type of powdery substance, was released, creating a dust cloud, Lewis said. The cloud reached an industrial space heater that runs on kerosene and had an open flame, he said.

Four employees suffered burns from the fire caused by the explosion, Lewis said. One has been released from the Integris Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City, he said. Two others with less severe burns were admitted to the hospital’s Paul Silverstein Burn Center. An employee with more severe burns is in the intensive care unit, Lewis said.

FIRE-FIGHTERS were scrambled last night after a chemical spill at a North-East industrial estate.

Crews from Darlington, Newton Aycliffe and Bishop Auckland were called to Aycliffe Business Park, in Redworth Way, County Durham, at 6.25pm after a leak of de-atomised kerosene from a 220-litre drum.

Crews made the incident safe and left the scene at 8.51pm. Two men were taken to Darlington Memorial Hospital as a precaution.

A kerosene spill at the city bus terminal Monday night forced firefighters to build a dike where Cross Creek empties into the Cape Fear River.

Battalion Commander Calvin Bishop with the Fayetteville Fire Department said city hazmat crews responded to reports of a fuel spill at 455 Grove St. just before 9:30 p.m.

As of 11:30 p.m., Bishop said more than 760 gallons of kerosene had spilled from a malfunctioning fuel pump at the Fayetteville Area System of Transit's refueling terminal.

Kerosene is used to fuel some of the newer buses in the fleet, Bishop said.