- Accident: A technical report guaranteed the stability of the Zaldibar landfill 17 days before its collapse
- Basque Country The Basque Government lifts preventive measures in the areas around the Zaldibar landfill by lowering levels of dioxins and furans
A focus of fire has been revived tonight at the Zaldibar landfill (Bizkaia), where two weeks ago a great waste of waste caused the disappearance of two workers.
The mayor of Ermua, Juan Carlos Abascal, has reported through the social networks of the reactivation of the fire, which is visible from surrounding towns.
The catch that remains in the landfill overnight works on fire control, which had been extinguished last Tuesday, although technicians did not rule out the possibility that it could be reactivated.
The Basque Government has lifted this Tuesday the preventive sanitary measures in the region near the landfill after the fire was extinguished and after knowing this afternoon the result of the latest analysis of the Higher Center for Scientific Research (CSIC) on pollution levels in the region, which marked a "downward trend".
On February 14, the Health Department recommended that residents of Zaldibar, Ermua and Eibar not carry out sports activities abroad or ventilate their homes in the face of high levels of dioxins and furans in the air caused by smoke.
The Basque Government announced on Thursday the lifting of this recommendation by understanding that, with the fire extinguished, it was "foreseeable" that the values of these pollutants were lowered "quickly and drastically."
The rescue teams, protected from contamination with disposable divers and masks, have continued working Thursday in pairs in search of the two missing workers in the detachment, Alberto Sololuze and Joaquín Beltrán, with the help of excavators and with favorable reports on the ground stability
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