Early Wednesday the firefighters had the fire under control at the gas pipeline system in Tennessee which was triggered by a storm in the area.

According to Columbia Gulf Transmission Co. spokesman, Kelly Merritt, the tornado hit the station in Hartsville, in Macon County, thus triggering the fire, Reuters reports.

Merritt said that even though the fire was put out quickly, it wasn’t expected for the station to be back in service any time soon.

Apparently lines 100, 200 and 300 were closed up. Later Wednesday the company is scheduled to make the damage assessments and get the station back in service.

According to authorities, there were fatalities, but it wasn’t clear with they were casualties from the fire or the storm.

On Tuesday, around 10 p.m. a fire erupted at the station near Green Grove, about 40 miles northeast of Nashville.

Tennessee Highway Patrol spokesman Mike Browning said that the station could have suffered damages from storms that came in shortly after the fire broke out. Almost 44 people were killed due to the storms, including 13 in Tennessee, the Associated Press informs.

According to Donnie Smith, spokesman of the Tennessee Emergency Management, flames were up to “400, 500 feet in the air” on Tuesday night.

Westmoreland Mayor Ricky Woodard said that the fire at the station was about seven miles from the city and it spread to houses nearby. According to him, there were casualties in Macon County and some people are reported missing.

Columbia Gulf manages 4,200 miles of natural gas pipeline in Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky, and links producers on the Gulf Coast with markets in the eastern United States.