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Port silo fires: Between local residents’ panic and authorities’ embarrassment

As the fermentation of wheat caused the silo fires, the use of water would only aggravate the problem, said the experts who believe that the only solution would be to wait for the fire to extinguish naturally

Port silo fires: Between local residents’ panic and authorities’ embarrassment

Members of the Civil Defense trying to put an end to a fire burning almost continuously for two weeks, which occurred in part of the grain silos at the Port of Beirut. (Credit: Mohamed Azakir/Reuters)

A thick black smoke continued to rise yesterday from the Beirut port grain silos. Hundreds of tons of grain, trapped in these huge storage facilities since the Aug. 4, 2020, blast, have been raging almost non-stop for two weeks.This is enough to...
A thick black smoke continued to rise yesterday from the Beirut port grain silos. Hundreds of tons of grain, trapped in these huge storage facilities since the Aug. 4, 2020, blast, have been raging almost non-stop for two weeks.This is enough to...