>Some 150 firefighters, police and medical personnel were at the scene. Twenty-five individuals were evacuated and seven were treated for possible smoke inhalation.
>The cause of the fire has yet to be determined.
>Late Thursday, Freiburg police confirmed the entire building and its contents had been lost and announced an investigation had been launched. Total damages said authorities, could not yet be calculated.
>A cheesemaker at the scene told the local *La Liberte* newspaper, “I guess we lost about 12,000 wheels of Gruyere.”
>A representative from the Migros Cooperative, which owned half the cheese in the building, said the supply of Gruyere to Migros supermarkets would not be affected.
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Excerpt from the linked content^1 by Jon Shelton:
>Some 150 firefighters, police and medical personnel were at the scene. Twenty-five individuals were evacuated and seven were treated for possible smoke inhalation.
>The cause of the fire has yet to be determined.
>Late Thursday, Freiburg police confirmed the entire building and its contents had been lost and announced an investigation had been launched. Total damages said authorities, could not yet be calculated.
>A cheesemaker at the scene told the local *La Liberte* newspaper, “I guess we lost about 12,000 wheels of Gruyere.”
>A representative from the Migros Cooperative, which owned half the cheese in the building, said the supply of Gruyere to Migros supermarkets would not be affected.
^1 Jon Shelton, 3 Mar. 2023, https://www.dw.com/en/swiss-cheese-depot-fire-destroys-12000-wheels-of-gruyere/a-64882653
Seriously, can someone fill me in: how much is 12k of wheels of Gruyère? Is it a 100kg or is it 12 tonnes?
USA to the rescue! /s
(A US court just ruled that US cheese makers can call cheese Gruyere).
I hope you like your Gruyere sprayed out of a can!
What a massive waste … 🙁
Cheeseocaust
Spontaneous fondue.
I guess the lesson here is “don’t put all your cheese wheels in the same depot”?
biggest raclette ever
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo
In moscowia, they do it deliberately
National crisis
Such a waste…
Can you imagine that smell
Reminds me of a fire I saw at a cheese factory once – there was deBrie everywhere
Now it’s smoked Gruyere!
Didn’t realize Switzerland had negotiated a cheese fire.
One of my favorite cheese, what a tragedy!
womp womp Switzerland.
All that good cheese, just ruined
Fack.
Sad. But just think, there was a point when that cheese was perfectly toasted and melty
Cheeses, that’s bad.
De Brie everywhere.
this is heartbreaking
Heisenberg says hello
NOOOO 😭😭😭😭😱