Officials with the city of Benicia and various state and local agencies are working to assess damage and begin planning cleanup efforts at the site of a four-alarm Benicia Port fire that burned for roughly 24 hours over the weekend.

The fire broke out Saturday at 12:20 p.m. near the Amports terminal at the base of a silo used for petroleum coke, also called petcoke, an oil refining byproduct.

The fire then traveled along a conveyer belt to the dock, where it began burning along the underside of the pier, “which is constructed of large creosote-coated timber covered by thick asphalt,” according to city officials.

Environmental fears arise after 4-alarm blaze that devastated Benicia pier

Source: Bay City News