a strong bursting partially destroyed the industrial unit of the Climber company of Ibi (Alicante) and emergency services research urgently to trapped workers inside, with a provisional balance of two deaths, two seriously injured and one missing.
The noise caused by this event, the causes of which are currently unknown, resembled a real earthquakeaccording to eyewitnesses.
There are fragments of metal and construction materials that were thrown and caused Shame In parked vehicles.
One of the parked vehicles which suffered the impact of fragments thrown by the explosion
This company manufactures packaging and packaging, the deflagration therefore occurred when the boiler used for the production of the base material, expanded polystyrene, exploded.
The Emergency Information and Coordination Center (USIC) reported that medical and health personnel were carrying out work on site to assist potential victims, although at the moment there is no further information.
Appearance of the effects of the explosion in the industrial warehouse
Local police cordoned off the area to facilitate work in an area that covers several streets of the L’Alfaç industrial zone, where the Ibi firefighters also work, according to sources from the Provincial Consortium.
The alert was received in the CICU at 12 p.m. and a team was mobilized. medical helicoptereitherthree SAMU units and four SVB units.
In addition, 112 report that seven firefighters from the Provincial Delegation of Alicante were sent. Local police and agents of the Autonomous Police of the Generalitat Valenciana.
The Firefighters Consortium said the boiler explosion caused part of the industrial warehouse, the roof and some walls of the factory to collapse, leaving workers trapped. debris to several people who were inside at the time.
This device made it possible to free two of the first three workers found in the rubble. When the boiler exploded, part of the roof was thrown off and hit a tender shipalthough, fortunately, in this case only material damage was reported.
