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Cartagena Firefighters smother fire in an electrical substation Escombreras (23/06/2010)

Five vehicles and 15 men of the Fire Station City Council participated in Cartagena on Tuesday evening to extinguish a fire in an electrical substation of the Public Entity desalination Water in the Valley of tailings.

According to the part of the Fire Department, when they reached the place, just five minutes after receiving notice of CEPA, the fire was well advanced, with a large thermal load.

For extinction was set up two facilities, a water and a foam and was accessed through the first door.

Efforts to control the fire were hampered by the high temperatures that it acquired, which broke the foam.

With the arrival of reinforcement is mounted a second line to tackle the blaze through a second door.

The main objective was from the outset to prevent the fire from spreading through the basement to the desalination plant and other electrical substation.

Firefighters gained access to one of the traps in the basement of the substation where it got put out the fire that affected the walls and roof, where the foam did not come.

Finally the fire was confined to a part of that facility being required Holmatro cutting equipment access doors to the cells of the latest instrumentation and smother flames.

According to the technicians of the company, the source of the fire was able to be in a short circuit occurred as a consequence of recent work.

As a result of high temperatures and the difficulty of the incident, four firefighters had to be assisted with oxygen in an ambulance.

The work lasted from extinction for two hours, from 18:23 to 21 hours or so.

In addition to staff Fire Station Cartagena, also spoke Fire Company 6, 8 civil protection troops and four members of the Guardia Civil.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena

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