A spectacular fire in a transformer Beiramar tunnel, in front of the Xunta, forced to halt activity on the underpass at the headquarters Vigo Galician Administration and the Star parking for two hours, from 12.45 to 15.15. More than enough time to verify the absolute dependence of the local traffic of the tunnel: the jam spread to the street Coruña and Areal Teis and despite the work of displaced workers who tried to channel the movement.
Road Safety Council member, Calvin Xulio, acknowledged that today "we have no alternative to tunnel-Teis Beiramar sense, because from Teis the center at least we García Barbon, holds for an emergency, but there is no way to reverse capacity. " In any case, said that agents deployed at least managed to prevent chaos from spreading, but not the collapse of the core. Pass through the tunnel more than 30,000 vehicles daily.
same occurred in the regional government, where its 600 workers were left without electricity. Although continued serving in some points with the center itself, there was little activity.
The closure was forced by the dense smoke caused by fire and security problems generated for drivers to not operate the pumps. Interestingly, the alarm was given by Salvage, which was notice that he saw a plume of thick smoke from a ship moored at the commercial dock. Also, a particular emergency alerted that there had been an explosion in the tunnel, where there was visible.
troops moved to the place Local Police and Fire that given the situation, chose to close the tunnel to traffic. It also closed parking pedestrian access from the Plaza de la Estrella, and vehicle access from the street Areal.
The explosion occurred in an electrical transformer and knocking out light as well as areas near buildings and Alameda Montero Ríos. Once firefighters quelled the blaze and ventilated the tunnel was opened for traffic from the three and a quarter.
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