📞 This is the first 999 call after the Buncefield oil depot exploded. On 11 December 2005 the UK experienced one of its largest explosions since World War Two at a oil depot that was holding up to 60 million gallons of fuel. The huge blast at the Buncefield fuel depot in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, was heard as far away as the Netherlands and shrouded much of south-east England in smoke. At the time, the Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal - which was co-owned by Total and Texaco - handled m