On the night of May 6th, a 40 meter long factory building caught fire on an industrial site in Wiesenburg - exactly one month after a similar fire in a 30 by XNUMX meter hall on the same site. The suspicion is that a fire devil is up to mischief, who is pursuing a devilish strategy: igniting thousands of stored old tires.
The burning tires, evidence of a bankrupt scrap tire company, created clouds of toxic smoke and posed a major problem for the local fire department as the flames spread amidst the mounds of tires. In the end, the fire had to be smothered with a blanket of foam.
Now the community is faced with the thankless task of having to dispose of the charred remains of the old tires. Particularly bitter: prospective buyers had just reported for the objects …
The tire press reported on it. read more
