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Fire put out at Marathon refinery in South-Central El Paso

EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- A fire burned at the Marathon Refinery in South-Central El Paso Friday, the El Paso Fire Department confirmed with ABC-7.

EPFD said the call came in at 6:14 p.m. for a condition three fire. The fire department specified the fire was categorized by the facility's nature, not because of the fire's size.

EPFD said it helped the refinery's fire department put the fire out. No transports were reported.

Officials with the refinery gave a statement to ABC-7 saying, "Trained teams extinguished a fire at Marathon’s El Paso refinery this evening. There were no injuries reported. Air monitoring was deployed in the community as a precaution, and there was no indication of off-site impact."

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