The container in Yantian Port, Shenzhen caught fire and burned for 5 hours, the cause has been identified

According to Yantian’s official Weibo news, at 16:30 on November 10, a fire broke out at Yantian International Container Terminal, and a container in the terminal caught fire.

After emergency treatment by professional firefighters, the open fire was extinguished at 21:30 that day, the fire did not spread, and there were no casualties in the accident.

It is understood that the cause of the fire has been preliminarily ascertained, and the contents of the fire container are: small speakers! (Industry analysts believe that the small speaker should have its own dangerous lithium battery).

After receiving the alarm, the Yantian Fire Squadron dispatched 4 fire trucks, a total of 15 people, to the scene to deal with the fire.

According to the deputy squadron leader of Yantian Fire Squadron, after they arrived at the scene, they could see open flames.

It is reported that there are 6 layers of containers stacked at the incident site, and the container on fire is located on the 4th layer, and is not on the periphery, so the water gun cannot hit the fire area. Firefighters can only carry out cooling operations near the fire container first. Afterwards, the on-site rescuers used the gantry crane to lift away the container next to the burning container. Firefighters from the Yantian Fire Squadron used the space created to build a platform to put out the fire.

Since the container on fire this time is located on the fourth floor of the 6-story container, and the burning time is relatively long, it has a very serious impact on some containers piled up around it. Fortunately, preliminary information shows that except for the damaged container, other The containers have been loaded and the overall shipping schedule has not been greatly affected.

It is expected that after the accident, the terminals and shipping companies will strengthen the inspection of dangerous goods and special goods in the near future, and all foreign trade and freight forwarding enterprises must also pay attention to the truthful declaration of dangerous goods and special goods.