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| 'Explosion' reported at Pembroke Dock oil refinery | |
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| Emergency services are responding to reports of an explosion at an oil refinery in west Wales. | Emergency services are responding to reports of an explosion at an oil refinery in west Wales. |
| The Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said 10 engines were at the Chevron plant in Pembroke Dock. | |
| Coastguards reported a "blast large enough to shake the windows" with "black smoke in the air". | |
| Eyewitnesses, who reported hearing a "massive bang", said the blast happened around 1815 BST. | |
| Phil Horne from Milford Haven said he was in his back garden at the time, on the opposite side of the waterway. | |
| "I heard a large explosion, turned around and saw a large fireball disappearing into the sky. | |
| "It went about halfway up the chimney stack of the refinery." | |
| Liz Herbert, who also lives on the other side of the haven, said: "I heard a massive bang and saw a huge plume of thick black smoke. It was really frightening." | |
| She said there was no longer any smoke rising from the site. |