Fire crews responded to an oil field fire in south Uintah County on Thursday. Naples Fire Chief Brett Reynolds shares that at 6:13am, Naples Fire was paged to a report of two gas separators on fire 2 miles south of the Mountain Fuel Bridge south of Vernal. “Upon arriving we found a small building attached to the separators had exploded, completely destroying the building,” explains Reynolds. “Thankfully nobody was at the location when it occurred and there were no injuries. The employees of the company who owns the location worked in an appropriate and professional manner to shut off all the gas flowing to the location and the remaining fire was quickly extinguished.” The cause of the fire is under investigation.
