A palette landfill lit up in Łódź at Starurudzka. Firefighters extinguished fire from 14 hosts. – The situation has been composed, now we have a few hours of extinguishing – said after 21.30 Brigadier Jędrzej Pawlak, press officer of the Provincial Commander of the State Fire Service in Łódź.
The fire broke out on Sunday around 17. Then information about the fire in the former cotton plants at ul. Old Ukrainian reached firefighters. A total of 14 fire brigades were sent to the action from several units in Łódź.
Source: PSP Łódź
Source: PSP Łódź
A gas cylinder explosion
The smoke was visible from the higher buildings even a few kilometers away.
“There is a storage shelter, two trucks with semi -trailers and a palette landfill” – he reported on Sunday before 19 Jędrzej Pawlak, spokesman for the Provincial Commander of the State Fire Service in Łódź.
Pawlak confirmed that there were several explosions due to a fire in the magazine. These were the sounds of the explosions of five LPG cylinders with a defect of 11 kg each. There were a total of 9 such cylinders in the building.
After 21:30, Pawlak announced that the situation is already under control and the fire is not spreading. – We will extinguish the landfill for the next few hours – he said.
Source: PSP Łódź
We also received a photo of the fire on contact24:
Source: Rafał/Contact24
Author/author: Mart, BŻ
Source: tvn24.pl, PAP
Source of the main photo: PSP Łódź