MADRID: Spanish officials told more than 160,000 individuals near Barcelona to remain home on Saturday after a fire at an industrial warehouse released a dangerous cloud of nitrogen over a large area. The incident, in the coastal town of Vilanova i la Geltru just north of Barcelona, started at sunrise on Saturday in a warehouse storing share cleaning products, the local fire service said. ” If you are in the area that is affected do never leave your home or your place of work,” the Civil Protection support said on social media. It advised people to keep doors and windows closed in the at-risk place, which stretched across five nearby towns along the coastline, from Vilanova i la Geltru to the town of Calafell, near Tarragona.
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” No casualties” had been reported so much, the fire service said on X, adding that it had deployed a large number of products to provide the fire under control. It said it was “monitoring the column ( of gas ) caused by the blaze for changes and for its toxic levels”. The government closed streets in the area and opened coach stations to stop people approaching the impacted area. ” It is very hard for chlorine to catch fire but when it does so it is very hard to set it out,” inventory user Jorge Vinuales De told local radio station Rac1. He said the cause of the fire might have been a lithium battery. Vilanova president Juan Luis Ruiz Lopez told people television TVE that authorities expected that, with the fire being put out,” this dangerous cloud will start to dissolve and we can raise the measures now imposed”.
