Spanish authorities have told more than 160,000 people near Barcelona to stay indoors after a fire at an industrial warehouse released a toxic cloud of chlorine over a wide area.
The blaze, in the coastal city of Vilanova i la Geltrú, south of Barcelona, started at dawn on Saturday in a warehouse storing pool cleaning products, the regional fire service said.
“If you are in the zone that is affected do not leave your home or your place of work,” the Civil Protection Service said on social media.
I guess most of WW1’s facilities handling chemicals had better safety than the average Spanish commercial unit in 2025. I’ve worked in Spain for almost a year and as great as Spain is, really, the utter neglectance of anything protecting you from falling into your death, gettng electrocuted, run over, flattened by something falling off a crane and any unnecessary, awful way of geting killed is quite unnerving. It’s not that I haven’t actually seen it fucking happen. The bloody risk (loose handrail) was obvious for anyone but noone cared - until somebody came to death.