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You can see a fire engine with a blinking blue light. Photo: Daniel Bockwoldt / Archive
Source: dpa-infocom GmbH
Once again there is a major fire in Rostock. After two mainly plastic fires in the waste disposal companies now burns a huge pile of scrap metal north of the fishing port.
R ostock (dpa / mv) – In the industrial area of Schmarl in Rostock, a large fire broke out on Wednesday afternoon. According to the city spokesman Ulrich Kunze of the evening burned a huge, scrap metal pile of 36,000 cubic meters and 15 meters high. According to previous information, firefighters had about 60 firefighters, 24 vehicles, a firefighting boat and the multipurpose ship "Arkona" on the scene. Firefighting will continue on Thursday night, Kunze said. In total, about 4,000 tonnes of scrap were burned.
Due to heavy smoke, police recommended that local residents keep windows and doors closed. The smoke was initially carried by the wind towards the city, where there was also clearly the smell. The olfactory nuisance was perceived differently depending on the speaker later in different parts of the city. But since the wind will come from different directions, harbadment is to be expected everywhere. "Constant driving tests in different parts of the city continue to be made, the limits have not been exceeded so far," Kunze said. Initially, there was no indication about the cause of the fire.
By the end of May or early June, there were two major fires in waste disposal companies in Rostock and the surrounding area. Initially, around 1,000 cubic meters of plastic waste caught fire on the grounds of a company in the Neu Hinrichsdorf district. A spokesman for the company had spoken of several damages of € 100,000. A few days later, a landfill burned in Parkentin (Rostock district). There, plastic and rubble had caught fire in a semi-open warehouse.
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