 United States experts arrived on Friday to help Indian firefighters battle a major blaze at a burst oil well which was sending smoke and flames shooting into the sky, forcing the evacuation of thousands of residents. A spokesperson for Oil India Limited (Oil), the country's main oil exploration firm, said hundreds of firefighters had worked through the night but failed to put out the blaze near Dikom, 520km east of Assam state's main city Guwahati. The two US experts were from Houston, Texas-based Boots and Coots International Well Control, a leading company dealing with oil and gas well blowouts and fires. | "Ya'll call that a fire? Shoot, I've seen more flame at our last company BBQ." |
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