About it writes "112 Ukraine" with reference to the message of the head of the State Emergency Service in the Kherson region, Sergei Chernykh on Facebook.

“On February 22, at 11:23, the communications panel of the 4th State Fire and Rescue Unit for the protection of the Veliko Aleksandrovsky district received information about a tank explosion at a gas station,” the statement said.

Arriving at the scene, firefighters found that a tank of 10 cubic meters exploded at a gas station. m with gas and oil vapors without subsequent combustion.

It is noted that during the explosion, two employees of the gas station were injured. One of them was delivered to the Velikoaleksandrovsky Central District Hospital with burns of the face and hands of the 3rd degree, the other, despite the burns, refused to be hospitalized.