Major fire breaks out from iranian drone strike on fujairah oil storage

Authorities in the UAE reported a major fire broke out at the Fujairah Oil Industry Zone following an Iranian drone attack. Civil defense teams were deployed immediately to contain the blaze. The Fujaairah storage hub has a capacity of around 18 million cubic metres, making it among the world’s largest oil storage centres. Iranian strikes on oil infrastructure highlight the conflict’s vertical nature of escalation, with trillions of dollars of infrastructure at stake.