The port of Falkenberg is closed – risk of tank burst

There is a source of hot water in a cistern of the port of Falkenberg

The risk of fire and explosion increases, according to the rescue service

Wednesday morning, police and rescue services are sent to the port of Falkenberg. There was a lot of smoke and it smelled weird of a tank loaded with hundreds of pounds of molasses, a sugar product used for the production of food.

– We have a cistern with molasses and to make it float, it has to be heated and something has happened with the heating and it has become too hot so it has to be cooled. Klaus Heinsvig, Deputy Chief of Rescue, explains: "It took a long time to warm up, it took a lot of time"

Zone blocked

The area was blocked by a few hundred meters of the shipyard In the harbour. According to the rescue service, there is a risk that the overheated tank could explode.

– The risk exists, but since the risk is daring, I dare not say it. According to Klaus Heinsvig, the risk of blockage is sufficient, but the emergency services have announced that they had tried to cool the tank, but were told in the afternoon that "there is no risk of blockage. they had taken – This means an increased risk of fire and explosion, so decisions were made to try to pump molasses, "says Klaus Heinsvig, GP.

GP also writes that the 200-meter zone around the tank was evacuated and that the rescue service carried the crevasses on a turf to drain the molasses

11 July 2018 10:39