Ceuta Firefighters Warn of Explosion Risk from Abandoned Moroccan Gas Cylinders

In total, more than 6,000 Moroccan gas bottles have been stranded in Ceuta since the borders were closed in March 2020, according to the city’s fire department. Only 300 gas bottles have already been collected in recent weeks by this organization, which continues to raise awareness among the population so that they deposit these gas bottles in approved centers, reports El Faro de Ceuta.

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On Saturday night, the firefighters again recovered five bottles in the San José-Hadú shantytown, particularly on Romero de Córdoba and Santos Vilela streets. According to the Environment Council, the objective of the operation is to create a collection point for these cylinders, and to make a toll-free number available to residents to allow them to deliver them directly to Ecoceuta, as this task does not fall to the firefighters.

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After saving three people from a fire that broke out in a house in Benzô on Saturday evening, the firefighters managed to extinguish another fire in an illegal dump in Arcos Quebrados and a third in Doctor Abdelkrim Street where two dumps caught fire on Sunday.