Firefighters put out the fire at the Constantí fertilizer plant and carry out controls

Emergency services are working to extinguish the fire in an industrial warehouse in Constantí (Tarragona) The Generalitat Firefighters have considered the fire extinguished at the Azufrera y Fertilizadores Pallarès plant (Afepasa) in the Constantí industrial estate (Tarragona) and this Tuesday morning they do temperature checks. The perimeter confinement of the plant has been completely lifted. A crew of Firefighters is working in the area to confirm that there are no hot spots and prevent the fire from rekindling, so they have not yet considered the fire extinguished. They have detailed that all the readings with the thermal camera in the industrial warehouse have given negative, as well as all the external measurements. Some thirty crews have worked on the extinction Civil Protection has deactivated the alert of the External Emergency Plan of the chemical sector of Tarragona (Plaseqta) and maintains the pre-alert, it has been reported in a tweet this Tuesday collected by Europa Press. This Monday a fire affected three ships of the Afepasa company that contained a product with 80% sulfur, and up to thirty Firefighters worked to extinguish the fire. Likewise, due to a change in the direction of the wind, this Monday afternoon the emergency services temporarily decreed the confinement of part of the municipalities of Reus and Constantí (Tarragona), of the Airport Reus and the C-14 road.