Hesse: Fire in the wood chip silo causes 100,000 euros in damage

Schluechtern/Offenbach (dpa/lhe) - A fire caused damage of around 100,000 euros in a wood chip silo.

Hesse: Fire in the wood chip silo causes 100,000 euros in damage

Schluechtern/Offenbach (dpa/lhe) - A fire caused damage of around 100,000 euros in a wood chip silo. Firefighters battled the flames for hours. According to the police headquarters in Offenbach on Tuesday, it was initially unclear how the fire in Schluechtern (Main-Kinzig-Kreis) came about. Accordingly, the fire was discovered on Monday afternoon and was not fully brought under control until early Tuesday morning.

Because the silo, which was half full of wood chips, could not be extinguished with water, the fire brigade used carbon dioxide to smother the flames. Around 100 cubic meters of chips were stored in the silo, with which the heating system in a workshop was to be fired. people were not injured. The Hessian Radio had reported on the fire.