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Fire Fighting Service Fire and Rescue (SEIS) City of Cartagena Sunday quelled two fires in the interior of a ship processing of agricultural products in the Valley of tailings and on the slopes of Monte Sacro, in the historic center of the city.
The first occurred on the six o'clock.
Firefighters rushed to the warehouse of Bunge Iberica required by the Operational Emergency Coordination Center of the Region of Murcia (CEPA).
The fire had registered a conduit for circulating soybean powder: this product is heated with steam to circulate in top condition, but an inadequate increase in the temperature of the steam had caused a fire in a bend where it accumulates more amount of soybean powder, spread through the duct.
On arrival of municipal personnel, the flames out through a pipe located on the ground floor.
Their efforts were directed to quell this fire and cool the entire line that reached to the seventh floor of the ship.
For this three installations are assembled and several openings in order to introduce hoses were made.
Inside conduits lot of material combustion appreciated as coals.
With the help of mechanical scaffolding company to access the top of the duct to remove the top cover and insert foam, to total extinction it was mounted.
The mission lasted until 11 pm, five hours, and it was a relief to be made ​​effective.
Bushfire IN MONTESACRO
The other casualty was recorded started about six-thirty in the afternoon on the slopes of Montesacro, popularly known as Cantarranas, as their top the old warehouses of the company that supplied water to the city were.
For an hour and a half they were dedicated to firefighters put out the fire that affected about 1,500 square meters of scrub.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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