A fireplace utterly destroyed an industrial constructing with a PV system in Vétroz, a city within the district of Conthey within the canton of Valais in French-speaking Switzerland, on July 8.

A fireplace July 8 destroyed an industrial constructing with a PV system in Vétroz, Switzerland. The native police revealed a number of movies of the hearth on its Twitter account. They reported that the hearth required the intervention of 140 firefighters and two helicopters.

A truck additionally caught fireplace and smoke unfold to close by areas, prompting an alert from native authorities, who’re nonetheless investigating the reason for the hearth.

Every week after the accident, the municipality of Vétroz says that the civil safety has accomplished its mission to regulate and clear up the stays and slag, together with items of the PV system.

“The ban on grazing and harvesting fodder within the space involved is due to this fact lifted,” the municipality mentioned. “The measure was carried out due to the dangers these residues symbolize for animals which will ingest them.”

Fragments of photo voltaic modules

Picture: Valais Civil Safety

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