WARSAW: A fire engulfed a top conveyer belt in Poland’s biggest brown coal mine Saturday, prompting police to deliver 13 firefighting teams into combat the flames.
The fire broke out in midday in Belchatow mine in central Poland.
Enormous clouds of black smoke covered the region, which also contains Poland’s biggest lignite power plant.
Even a spokesman for the firefighters at Lodz area, Jedrzej Pawlaksaid there were no reports of casualties.
He explained the conveyer belt was first 30 meters (98 ft ) high, which makes access to the flame hard.
He stated it had been brought under control but wasn’t out.
State energy team PGE that conducts the mine along with the neighboring power plant stated Twitter the fire resulted from the ignition of lava which was being hauled into the Belchatow power plant Unit 14 reactor.
The fire didn’t get to the device and the energy plant wasn’t changed, ” it said.
Unit 14 was not the only one who stayed busy in the energy plant when 10 other components endured an automatic noodle Monday which was due to malfunction in a nearby power change.
Unit 14 is attached to another switchboard.
PGE stated that a special commission was made to ascertain the origin of the fire.
The flame Saturday came a day after leading European Union court arranged Poland to immediately stop operations at a second lignite mine at Turow, to the Czech and German boundary, which also goes back to PGE.
Officials from the Czech Republic had whined the mine used their groundwater and influenced their own inhabitants.
Poland’s ministry for state resources, Jacek Sasin, announced that Poland didn’t take the court’s judgment and wouldn’t take any measures that could endanger Poland’s energy security as it spans out black lava.
An tweet by PGE indicated that Poland wasn’t treated since the EU wasn’t ordering Berlin or Prague to shut 14 lignite mines that they function near Poland’s boundary.
Coal constitutes 65 percent of Poland’s energy resources, including 17 percent from lignite, whereas roughly 25 percent of the nation’s energy comes from renewable energy resources.
Poland’s heavy dependence on coal is still a source of tensions at the 27-nation EU, that will be trying to meet challenging goals to decrease the bloc’s greenhouse gas emissions.
