Germany. Friday morning. In the locality of Lichterfelde (south-western part of the Capital), a “big fire broke out” in a “steel mill” and alerted the authorities.
An “official danger warning” was “issued” by “Berlin’s municipality” and the “surrounding schools” were temporarily closed.
Furthermore, the “firefighters” recommended to the “population” to “avoid” to get close to “the area around the plant”, open “doors and windows” and use “ventilations and air conditioners” (Radiotelevisione svizzera di lingua italiana, RSI).
According to a “spokesperson of the fire brigade” of the city, “also chemical substances” were “burning” in the factory (the “Diehl Metal Applications”), where “sulphuric acid and copper cyanide” are “stored”, with the “risk” to have a “toxic cloud” due to “hydrocyanic acid” spreading “in the air” through the “smoke”.
He explained that the plant – dedicated to the “galvanisation for the treatment of metallic surfaces” – was “completely burning on four floors” and “a part” had “already collapsed”, making it possible only to put the blaze out “from the outside” (ibidem).
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