a cumbersome fire that has started in a zone of vegetation that borders the Sabadell airport (Barcelona) It has affected the airport facilities, where four modules, a transformer and the dependencies of an airline have burned. In addition, the fire has forced this infrastructure to be closed to air traffic for nearly three hours.
Sources from the Fire Department of the Generalitat have explained to EFE that the fire started around 12:45 p.m. in a adjoining orchard area to the airport and, subsequently, entered the premises of the facility, which has forced the emergency plan to be activated.
The offices of the Aerolink school (Sabadell airport) on fire after a fire in one of the orchards surrounding the airport. pic.twitter.com/jpXd7w2JAR
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Civil Protection, for its part, has activated the Aerocat plan alert as a result of this fire at the airport facilities.
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The fire has already been extinguishedafter which the airport has resumed its operations around four in the afternoon.
In the extinction tasks they have worked eight fire department crewsaided by aerial means.