A huge flare that reached eight metres high were surprised yesterday to workers and neighbors next to the number 176 on the streets of Almogavers in the Poblenou, where a spectacular fire originated on the public highway by the rupture of a pipe gas was alive for over two hours and could be seen from different points of the city. The incident, which occurred shortly after 9.30 am, caused no injuries but forced to cut traffic in the area and evacuate the people who were in a close perimeter, workers of workshops and enterprises, which are so voluntarily joined the staff of the adjacent seat Barcelona TV.
The gas leak and subsequent fire had originated in the works that company employees Acsa Sorigue being carried out in the @ 22 to install the service distribution of cold and heat. It is the fact that next to the channelling of this system there is a pipe network of low pressure Natural Gas, which was allegedly damaged operators Acsa. The Government has already opened the file open to the sanctions following the visit that construction technicians in the Ministry of Economy and Finances conducted to the area.
Antonio Rodriguez, one of the employees minutes before manipulating the pipe, the water, said after the fire that he could not explain what happened: "We had just cutting a portion of the tube and then we went to breakfast. We have been searching to alert us of leaving a flame. "
And that calls not started as a flash, as recounted one of the witnesses, Octavi Puigdollers, owner of a car. "He started out small flames in the place where some operators had been manipulated. De coup has begun to be spectacular and have feared an explosion because the side had a butane canisters have reiterated that the workers themselves," he said, noting the rapid intervention of the Fire, who came within a few minutes with five units.
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