Cash of the berlin fire brigade They try to control the fire unleashed in the grunewald forestwhere is a explosives depot to which until now the firefighting teams have not been able to access due to several detonations.
The fire spreads over an area of 15,000 square metersin the place where the explosives deposit is, as well as in the adjacent wooded areaaccording to information from public television ARD.
#BREAKING: Overnight explosion at police bomb disposal site causes major wildfire in Berlin’s Grunewald forest; large-scale emergency operation underground – rbbpic.twitter.com/9LP4Kc7TB9
— IEN (@BreakingIEN) August 4, 2022
So hört sich das gerade an in Berlin Knall Explosion Grunewald wirklich sehr gut zum einschlafen pic.twitter.com/v8wFjZGiuU
— schwamm (@Schwammkules) August 4, 2022
The situation is extremely complexdue to the aforementioned deposit, a place where regularly bomb squads detonate in a controlled manner explosives and ammunition.
To the forest of Grunewald they have moved 150 firefighters, as well as police and rescue teams, which they try to control the surroundings tank to prevent the spread of flames.
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These teams work together distance of almost a kilometer from the depositgiven the danger of producing new detonations.
A stretch of highway that crosses the forest has been closed to traffic, as well as several neighborhood roads in the forest, the largest in the German capital, with nearly 4,500 hectares.