Smoke billows from a fire at a fuel tank storage facility run by Ultracargo in Santos, near Sao Paulo April 3, 2015. Eighty firefighters were battling a fire at a fuel tank storage facility run by Ultracargo near Brazil’s port of Santos, Latin America’s largest, the local fire service said on Thursday. The company said there had been no victims and the area had been evacuated. It was too early to say what had caused the fire, which was limited to four tanks and was now contained, it added in a statement. REUTERS/Nacho Doce
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