{"id":149676,"date":"2026-08-20T23:29:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T23:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/149676\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T23:29:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T23:29:03","slug":"stray-spark-ignites-cooling-oil-causes-explosion-and-fire-in-berlin-commercial-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/149676\/","title":{"rendered":"Stray spark ignites cooling oil, causes explosion and fire in Berlin commercial building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/berlin-fire-r7OVvb-e1787179512152-300x169.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-1302345\" alt=\"\"   loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An explosion resulted in a fire Tuesday at a commercial building in Berlin, according to the Berlin fire chief.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crews were dispatched to Precision Punch and Tooling for the reported explosion at 11:24 a.m., where they found moderate to heavy smoke inside the area of the facility. Employees at the time were in the process of evacuating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fire chief said the fire occurred during a grinding process, where a stray spark ignited cooling oil, which entered a portion of the ventilation system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Employees initially fought the fire with extinguishers, which helped keep the fire under control, the fire department said. Firefighters were able to quickly extinguish the remaining fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One employee was evaluated for a minor laceration, while several other employees were evaluated for smoke inhalation.No one was hospitalized for their injuries.<\/p>\n<p>WTNH-TV ABC 8 New Haven<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An explosion resulted in a fire Tuesday at a commercial building in Berlin, according to the Berlin fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,4961,190,69365],"class_list":["post-149676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-berlin","tag-connecticut","tag-germany","tag-new-england-region"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117130439767097134","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}