By Tara Rippin • Published: 21 Feb 2019 • 13:46
FIRE: Waste is believed to have fuelled the warehouse blaze. CREDIT: @BombersDePalma Twitter
AN abandoned industrial warehouse was gutted by fire in Palma on Monday afternoon. Palma fire fighters confirmed the blaze was fuelled by ‘an accumulation of waste’, and the local police has taken over the investigation. According to fire sources, passengers of the Railway Service of Mallorca (SFM) reported the blaze at 2.20pm after passing through the Son Cladera metro station and witnessing a column of black smoke coming from the site between Son Rullan and Son Cladera. A fire crew was despatched, using a hydrant, managed to contain the flames and make the area safe. Three was nobody in the warehouse at the time, and no injuries were reported.
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Tara Rippin is a reporter for Spain’s largest English-speaking newspaper, Euro Weekly News, and is responsible for the Costa Blanca region. She has been in journalism for more than 20 years, having worked for local newspapers in the Midlands, UK, before relocating to Spain in 1990. Since arriving, the mother-of-one has made her home on the Costa Blanca, while spending 18 months at the EWN head office in Fuengirola on the Costa del Sol. She loves being part of a community that has a wonderful expat and Spanish mix, and strives to bring the latest and most relevant news to EWN’s loyal and valued readers.
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