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Fears of Toxic Smoke After an Industrial Explosion in Germany - The New York Times

Fears of Toxic Smoke After an Industrial Explosion in Germany - The New York Times

Fears of Toxic Smoke After an Industrial Explosion in Germany - The New York Times
Jul 27, 2021 1 min, 0 secs

BERLIN — A major industrial explosion and subsequent fire at a commercial waste disposal plant rattled the city of Leverkusen in western Germany on Tuesday, killing at least one worker and injuring more than a dozen others.

Federal authorities had quickly declared the situation an “extreme threat” and warned local residents to avoid the area, stay indoors, shut their windows and doors, and switch off home air conditioning units fed by outside air, as they assessed the toxicity of the smoke that billowed out from the site.

“A full analysis of the cloud that we all saw over the city today is not available,” said Lars Friedrich, the director of Chempark, the industrial park where the explosion occurred, during a news conference on Tuesday afternoon.

The cause of the explosion, which occurred at around 9:40 a.m.

The wind quickly blew the smoke over inhabited parts of the area, which worried the authorities, who warned local residents of the potential danger through a federal warning app and with sirens citywide.

Although the site of the explosion is just seven and a half miles from Cologne, the city’s firefighters said in a post on Twitter that the air in that city remained safe for residents

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