Chair fire | A fire in a chair company forces to cut the railway circulation

Aparatous fire that has been declared about three in the afternoon on Tuesday in a chair waste management company. The combustion of the material has caused a great black smoke that has been seen from the highway and other nearby municipalities.

The fire has started around 15.09 hours in the company of the Layna Group, located in the Camí Vell de Beniparrell, in the industrial estate the altered and dedicated to transport and waste management.

The Local Police has agreed the area and to the place the Provincial Firefighters Consortium has mobilized six endowments of the Chair, Torrent, Catarroja, Burjassot, Paterna and Alzira parks, as well as Sergeant, Head of Sector and Officer.

The fire has affected both inside and outside the ship where cartons and plastics accumulate, whose combustion is what has caused the impressive black smoke.

Given the magnitude of the fire, the troops have asked Adif to interruption of the railway circulation. It should be remembered that chair is a railway knot in which the C1 (Valencia-Gandia) and C2 (Valencia-Xàtiva-Moixent) lines are crossed, in addition to the passage of other medium and long distance lines.

Immediately, Renfe has confirmed through social networks that due to the fire, near the roads, the circulation has been cut between chair and cataracts, in both directions, and an alternative bus service has been enabled between the two stations.

According to the mayor, Vicente Zaragozà, the company does not have nearby ships, so, in principle there is no danger of spreading. “Firefighters are doing a good job,” insists the first mayor, who points out that smoke is very scandalous but that, for the moment, it affects neither the urban area of ​​chair nor that of Beniparrell, so no measures have been taken for the population.

However, from Emergencies of the Generalitat a forecast of the direction of the wind and time in the area has been requested to know if they could affect in the next few hours.

In this regard, Aemet has published that the smoke column is very inclined west due to the force of the East and Southeast breeze and that blows with 40 kilometers gusts, which will decrease in intensity with the fall of the sun.

The Emergency Information and Coordination Center (CICU) has also sent to the place a basic life support ambulance (SVB) in a preventive way.

From the Provincial Firefighters Consortium, it has been pointed out that, after about three hours of work, the troops are slowing the propagation of fire to the rest of the facilities.

Affected trains

About five in the afternoon, Renfe has reported again the restoration of the circulation, only by a unique route between the two stations affected and around 18.38 the circulation was restored by the two ways.

The railway operator has also pointed out that the circulation in these nearby lines will gradually recover their passage of passage. In addition to delays of the trains of near lines C1 and C2, the fire has affected the Alvia Barcelona-Cádiz, which has had to interrupt the circulation and has accumulated 50 minutes of delay, after remaining detained in Valencia Nord.

Likewise, the Euromed Alicante- Barcelona has had to remain detained at the Alzira station, and has resumed its march with 22 minutes of delay.

Renfe has also announced the suppression of trains such as the 16 and 17.23 hours to L’Alcúdia de Crespins and that of 18.30 to Xàtiva, in line C2. On the other hand, in the C1, the 18.40 and the 20.10 hours to Gandia have not circulated. In the information it has not been specified if the suppression is due to this incident.