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Effective Fire Park City of Cartagena, together with staff of Los Alcazares and Autonomous helicopter, managed to extinguish the fire at dawn registered by Sunday afternoon in a vehicle scrapping the road to La Aljorra.
The casualty occurred about 17 hours and was alerted by the Emergency Center of the Autonomous Community (CECARM).
He quickly went to the site about 14 firefighters and several vehicles of the City of Cartagena, among which were three truck bombs.
Once in place it was noted that this was a closed vessel of about 1,200 square meters, compartmentalized in various spaces.
The fire was concentrated in the first of these spaces and the prevailing wind pushed the smoke and heat to the rest of the ship.
Firefighters in place two facilities, to try fire for his side, but due to the difficulty of access to the right and the large amount of smoke and flames, pushed by the wind, had to retreat from their line of advance.
Given the large volume of water needed to control the fire CECARM requested the media, joining about 18:30 pm a truck bomb with two firefighters Park Los Alcazares and a helicopter.
The latter due to the proximity of sunset withdrew after several flushes.
After several hours of intervention were effective in controlling the fire behind the line of ships, reaching the same to a second row of vehicles scrapped.
From there the firefighters moved in the opposite direction to fire foam covering it to prevent revived again.
About 22 hours, the staff involved was relieved by a crew of six firefighters and three drivers, who were in charge of the craft foam seal, it being extinguished sinister about 1.45 in the morning and returning to base.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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