[CharlotteSometimes]

Of course it would've got as much attention. When the BBC first ran the report, there were suggestions that a plane had crashed into the fuel depot. There was similar speculation when a train derailed in a tunnel in Liverpool recently. Until any possible terrorist connection has been dismissed, any such news report is bound to get blanket coverage at the moment. (Even though the BBC had nothing to offer for hours, other than one static image of the inferno, and phone calls from people that lived nearby).