Austira(Muhammad Amir Saddqiue) After the major fire in an old warehouse in Kuchl (Tennengau) on Sunday morning, the cause should be clarified. According to the police, the defective battery of an electric forklift was “with a probability bordering on certainty” the starting point of the major fire. There were no injuries in the fire in the immediate vicinity of the train station, part of the warehouse and the silo tower were destroyed. The attached warehouse and the residential wing were saved by the fire brigade. The amount of property damage was initially unknown. During the fire, some ÖBB high-voltage lines for rail operations had to be switched off for safety reasons. Engine drivers were instructed to take the trains more slowly through the station. Reaching over prevented. Several pallets of wood briquettes were stored in the hall that caught fire. “A family from an adjoining house was brought to safety. No people were injured, ”the volunteer fire brigade informed Kuchl. The fire broke out in the morning and the fire brigade was alerted at around 5:30 a.m. In the morning the fire could be brought under control. The smoke development was very high, but there were other challenges for the emergency services, explains the operations manager and local fire brigade commander Gerhard Scherfl from the Kuchl volunteer fire brigade: “The proximity to the Kuchl train station bothered us. We then organized the trains to go slower. A head of operations from ÖBB checked the safety of the railway systems as well as freight and passenger traffic. Engine drivers were instructed to slow down the trains. Some ÖBB power lines had to be switched off for safety reasons. Large-scale deployment of firefighters. More than eight respiratory protection teams were deployed. Part of the roof of the warehouse was removed so that the wood briquettes could be extinguished in an open area. The warehouse was cleared with wheel loaders and the embers were extinguished. A structural engineer checked the silos.
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