Berlin: fire in Marienfelde – large-scale fire brigade

Sedan. On Thursday night a fire broke out at a company site on Motzener Strasse in Berlin-Marienfelde. A warehouse is burning across its entire length, there have been no injuries so far, as a fire department spokesman said. The Berlin fire brigade is now on a large scale with 140 people. The clouds of smoke over the southern district of Berlin were visible from afar. It will be hours before the fire is extinguished.

The warehouse belongs to a metallurgical company, as the spokesperson said. “Several chemical baths caught fire at the electroplating company,” he said. In electroplating companies, surfaces are electrochemically coated with metals and refined.

Fire in Marienfelde: A pollutant cloud leaked, warns the fire department

At night, firefighters issued an official hazard report through warning apps. “A large fire in a production room at an accident facility creates a lot of smoke,” he said.

The area around the fire scene should be avoided, doors and windows should be closed. The fire brigade wrote on Twitter that the danger zone was 3,000 meters around the scene of the fire on Motzener Straße.

A cloud of pollutants had escaped from the room and measurements were currently being taken of how toxic this cloud was. “You cannot say yet how bad it is,” the spokesman said.

There is a pungent smell in the air, said a dpa photographer at the scene. The fire brigade is trying to fight the flames with the help of revolving ladders. The help service of the German Red Cross (DRK) Berlin-Zentrum provided emergency services at the scene, as reported on Twitter.

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