“If you are in the affected area, do not leave your home or your workplace”requests on social networks civil protection in the northeast region. More than 160,000 people living in five municipalities in the Spanish region of Catalonia were indeed called upon to remain confined. A fire in an industrial deposit gave birth to a toxic chlorine cloud deemed toxic.
The affected municipalities are located on the coast, between Barcelona and Tarragona. For the moment “No injuries were reported”said firefighters on social network X, who mobilized major means to extinguish the fire.
Chlorine “very difficult to put out”
This one broke out at dawn, this Saturday, May 10, in an industrial warehouse that stores swimming pool products, in the municipality of Vilanova I La Geltrú, which generated the toxic cloud of Chlorine, according to the firefighters.
Saturday morning, the firefighters said they had controlled the fire, but worked on “Monitoring of the cloud generated by fire to follow its evolution and toxicity levels”. “The chlorine rarely ignites, but when it burns, it is very difficult to extinguish”, said the owner of the industrial deposit, Jorge Viñuales Alonso, on the radio.
