{"id":89769,"date":"2025-05-10T10:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T10:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/89769\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T10:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T10:02:09","slug":"toxic-chlorine-cloud-in-spain-triggers-mass-indoor-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/89769\/","title":{"rendered":"Toxic chlorine cloud in Spain triggers mass indoor order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Spanish authorities told more than 160,000 people near Barcelona to stay indoors on Saturday after a fire at an industrial warehouse released a toxic cloud of chlorine over a wide area.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The blaze, in the coastal city of Vilanova i la Geltru just south of Barcelona, started at dawn on Saturday in a warehouse storing pool cleaning products, the regional fire service said, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News.Az<\/a> reports, citing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20250510-thousands-confined-indoors-by-toxic-chlorine-cloud-in-spain\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you are in the zone that is affected do not leave your home or your place of work,&#8221; the Civil Protection service said on social media.<\/p>\n<p>It advised people to keep doors and windows closed in the at-risk area, which stretched across five local districts along the coast, from Vilanova i la Geltru to the village of Calafell, near Tarragona.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No casualties&#8221; had been reported so far, the fire service said on X, adding that it had deployed a large number of units to bring the fire under control.<\/p>\n<p>It said it was &#8220;monitoring the column (of gas) caused by the blaze for changes and for its toxic levels&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The authorities closed roads in the area and shut train stations to prevent people approaching the affected area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is very difficult for chlorine to catch fire but when it does so it is very hard to put it out,&#8221; warehouse owner Jorge Vinuales Alonso told local radio station Rac1.<\/p>\n<p>He said the cause of the fire might have been a lithium battery.<\/p>\n<p>Vilanova mayor Juan Luis Ruiz Lopez told public television TVE that authorities expected that, with the fire being put out, &#8220;this toxic cloud will start to dissipate and we can lift the measures currently imposed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spanish authorities told more than 160,000 people near Barcelona to stay indoors on Saturday after a fire at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[199,2000,299,104,42604,42605],"class_list":{"0":"post-89769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-barcelona","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-spain","12":"tag-toxic-chlorine-clound","13":"tag-warehouse-fire"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114482967174829520","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}