Overview
- A fire broke out in a day coal bunker at the Tiefstack plant on Saturday, spreading along conveyor belts to create secondary blazes about 20 and 30 meters high.
- Plant staff shut the conveyors and evacuated 51 employees, and authorities reported no injuries during the incident.
- Fire crews used specialized gear, including aerial platforms, a fireboat and a Cobra high-pressure cutting and extinguishing system to reach burning coal inside the structure.
- Officials said the main fire was under control by midday and that Hamburg’s district heat and power supply was not at risk, while after-extinguishing work continued into the night.
- Reports differ on manpower deployed with outlets citing roughly 60 to 80 firefighters, and the incident recalls a similar bunker fire at Tiefstack in October of last year.