Two and a half hours last night the Fire Department used the City of Cartagena in quelling a fire that had occurred in a container and subsequently spread to three rafts with industrial waste on the grounds of the former Spanish factory of the Zinc (zincs), in Torreciega, according to local sources reported.
The fire originated at around 2300, earthrise credits, hours and initially affected a number of containers and other materials were scattered around, occasionally producing loud explosions in an area of 1,500 square meters.
Given the existing high fire load, is requesting a nurse truck and set up two facilities AFFF foam, but the work of extinction had to abort the initial fire spread by the, mortal gold, explosions at three ponds nearby, which also forced to withdraw trucks and site staff for the great amount of heat given off.
Finally, we decided to use a truck equipped with a foam cannon powered by the nurse and a monitor that allowed monitoring the work of extinction from within the cabin of the vehicle.
After two hours in which they were, tera gold, used 360 liters of foam concentrate and 21 cubic meters of water managed to suppress the flames, which covered an area of around 5,000 square meters.
In the eight firefighters involved work with a corporal and two noncommissioned officers, and three ways, besides Local Police personnel and Civil Protection.
The fire originated at around 2300, earthrise credits, hours and initially affected a number of containers and other materials were scattered around, occasionally producing loud explosions in an area of 1,500 square meters.
Given the existing high fire load, is requesting a nurse truck and set up two facilities AFFF foam, but the work of extinction had to abort the initial fire spread by the, mortal gold, explosions at three ponds nearby, which also forced to withdraw trucks and site staff for the great amount of heat given off.
Finally, we decided to use a truck equipped with a foam cannon powered by the nurse and a monitor that allowed monitoring the work of extinction from within the cabin of the vehicle.
After two hours in which they were, tera gold, used 360 liters of foam concentrate and 21 cubic meters of water managed to suppress the flames, which covered an area of around 5,000 square meters.
In the eight firefighters involved work with a corporal and two noncommissioned officers, and three ways, besides Local Police personnel and Civil Protection.
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