The fire came within 40ft of the airport’s jet fuel tanks.
Sounds dramatic, but probably wouldn’t have done anything. Even if jet fuel is lying in an open pool, it takes a lot to ignite it. Simply dropping a match on it does nothing, for example. I’ve witnessed airport fire fighting training burns at close range and the fire fighters had to ignite the fuel with what amount to small flame throwers, and even then it took some time and effort to get it going. Once it got going, though, the group I was with started running backward because the heat a jet fuel fire produces is intense, even at a good distance.
The vehicle fire might have been enough to do the trick, but not through the walls of a steel tank.