Germany

German Automotive Foundry Fire Quickly Contained

Two workers treated for smoke inhalation.

Portable flaring stack put in service to control excess gas.

Damage estimated at nearly EUR 200,000.

Extreme heat limits responders to exterior attack.

Steel giant CEO expected to do five years in a German prison.

Fire required a mutual aid response involving several hundred firefighters.

Facility originally built in the 1860s.

Response required a 30-meter-tall aerial device to reach the flames.

Mutual aid request issued to surrounding communities.

Tuesday fire in Bremen follows a 3½-day blaze last week that destroyed 10 warehouses.