Also on Wednesday the fire brigade was used with extinguishing work after the major fire at the manufacturer of the Machine tool EMCO in Hallein in Salzburg. A hall was completely destroyed. Nevertheless, production will be resumed this week.
The environmental alarm for Hallein and the adjacent communities could still be lifted at night. About 20 helpers from the Hallin Fire Brigade were still used on Wednesday. The hall, in which the fire broke out on Tuesday around 5 p.m., will be completely destroyed. Part of the roof had collapsed in the evening. However, it was prevented from spreading the flames to the surrounding company buildings, “these are maximum slightly damaged”.
After the major fire at the manufacturer of the Machine tool EMCO in Hallein (Tennengau) on Tuesday evening, the fire brigade was still in action on Wednesday morning. “We are still busy removing and removing Sintels,” said the Hallein Fire Brigade Commander and Head of Operations was Sebastian. The production in the company was temporarily stopped, but should run again on Thursday.
About 300 firefighters in action
The Brandbrigade spent the highest alarm level on Tuesday. About 300 firefighters with 49 vehicles from the entire area – also from the capital of the state and neighboring Bavaria – were deployed. Several extinguishing pipes were placed by the Königseeea 12 to the company building and a so-called tank pendulum traffic with tank-fins were set up. The firefighters opened parts of the roof to extinguish the fire. Fortunately there were no injuries, according to the spokesperson for Fire Brigade Rupert Unterwurzacher. The black smoke column that rose from the fire could still be seen from the city of Salzburg.
The inhabitants of Hallein and the adjacent Oberalm communities, Puch and Anif were asked to keep the windows closed due to the strong smoke development in the late afternoon via the alert mobile phone alarm and to leave areas in which smoke aid is noticeable. At midnight the country finally displayed.
The production was temporarily stopped, as the GPA boss of Salzburg, Michael Huber, explained Wednesday. “All production -related employees are at home.” It was too early to be able to judge how things are going on. “The problem is that the partial warehouse has been burned.” The question now arises how quickly the missing parts can be obtained.
Replacement for destroyed parts of the biggest challenge
In any case, there must be enough parts to resume production, because the company has announced that the production company should start again on Thursday. “As far as I saw this, the hall has completely burned down, but the remaining, surrounding production rooms are undamaged. The production is completely intact. It is also completely intact, the server room was saved,” Emco director Karl Pichler told ORF. So someone “got away with a blue eye”. The biggest challenge is the replacement for those parts that were destroyed during the fire. But people are already in contact with partners and suppliers.
If production is even longer, the continuous payment of wages is protected for the employees involved, Florian Koch of the GPA said. The fire under labor law on the atmosphere of the employer, so the salary must be paid further as long as production is. The employees are ready to work. According to Koch, employees in the administrative area have already started their work today.
The Labor Chamber has set up a hotline (0664-9627475) for affected employees. Some employees had already registered, said Koch.
Source: Krone
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