After the major fire in Berlin’s Grunewald forest, the fire brigade is preparing to enter the restricted area around the police detonation site. “We hope to be able to continue cooling down there with robots and firefighting tanks so that we can then go into the area with forces,” said a spokesman for the Berlin fire brigade on Monday. The firefighters are currently preparing for this.
The restricted area covers a radius of 1000 meters around the blast site. In the night of Thursday, there was an unknown cause of explosions that started the fire. The fire now covered an area of ??around 50 hectares. World War II bombs and confiscated fireworks are stored at the detonation site. The risk of explosion made extinguishing the fire enormously difficult.
According to Wilke, there are still isolated fire nests in the restricted area. But the fire will not spread. The main problem is that individual areas of the blast site are too heated. There is therefore a risk that the explosives stored there could explode. “We monitor the temperature with drones,” said the fire department spokesman. Only when this is below a certain value can the blocking of the Avus motorway be lifted.
The highway and surrounding roads were closed after the fire broke out. Train traffic was also interrupted, but the railway line was reopened on Saturday.
Despite the ongoing fire at the blast site in Berlin’s Grunewald forest, the fire brigade, in consultation with the police, has released the railway line on the edge of the restricted zone. This would allow both local public transport and long-distance transport to start up again on the route.
Source: WORLD
