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 shock local residents who are still traumatized by the port explosion and are asphyxiated by the smoke coming from the site.The first attempt to extinguish the fire, with the help of army’s firefighting helicopters, ended in failure on July 15.The second attempt was made on July 21 by the Beirut Fire Brigade and the Civil Defense.But the fire will likely resume very soon, experts told L’Orient-Le Jour. The fire is due to the fermentation of the grain, and spraying water on the silos would only fuel the flames even more. The only solution, according to experts, would be to wait for the fire 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 shock local residents who are still traumatized by the port explosion and are asphyxiated by the smoke coming from the site.The first attempt to extinguish the fire, with the help of army’s firefighting helicopters, ended in failure on July 15.The second attempt was made on July 21 by the Beirut Fire Brigade and the Civil Defense.But the fire will likely resume very soon, experts told L’Orient-Le Jour. The fire is due to the fermentation of the grain, and spraying water on the silos would only fuel the flames even more. The only solution, according to experts, would be to wait for the fire...
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