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Hamburg residents warned of toxic smoke from a large fire

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The population was asked to immediately close windows and doors, as well as turn off ventilation and air conditioning, a cloud of smoke was moving towards the city center.

In Hamburg, the fire department warned the public about toxic smoke after a large fire in several warehouses in the Rothenburgsort district, Spiegel reports.

According to an official warning sent on Sunday morning, residents of Rothenburgsort could be “harmed by flue gases and chemicals in the air we breathe.”

The population is asked to immediately close windows and doors, as well as turn off ventilation and air conditioning. A cloud of smoke moves towards the center of the city. In the official warning, the formation of fire and smoke is classified as a “severe risk”.

“The center of Hamburg is completely engulfed in smoke,” said a fire service spokesman. Rotenburgsort is located east of the city center on the Elbe and borders, among other things, the GafenCity district. According to preliminary data, no one was hurt.

So far, firefighters have not been able to provide any information on how a large fire started on Easter night and what exactly was in the burning warehouses. However, according to firefighters, many containers were broken at the truck stop. They contain flammable liquids. It’s not clear what exactly those chemicals are.

According to the NDR, it is hydrogen sulfide.

The fire broke out around 4:30 in the morning at a truck stop. Above the fire place is “mushroom smoke”. Explosions continue to occur, firefighters can only reach the place in respirators.

“This is really an emergency, complex operation,” a fire department spokesman said. He suggested that the fire-fighting operation, involving around 210 emergency services, would last throughout the day. Only then can the police begin investigating the fire.

The fire also affected rail traffic. According to Deutsche Bahn, train traffic between Hamburg and Büchen (Schleswig-Holstein) had to be stopped due to a fire in the immediate vicinity of the platform. This meant that all IC, EC and ICE trains between Hamburg and Berlin had to be diverted and were delayed by around 60 minutes.

Recall that in Buryatia, in the village of Solontsy, firefighters accidentally burned half the village when they were burning dry grass as planned.

Source: korrespondent

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