Chokladflod shocked the German town

Chocolate is a favorite in the festive season for many. But for the fire department in Westönnen in western Germany, it became too much of a good thing. In several days the firemen skyfflat chocolate from the ground after a leak from the chocolate factory DreiMeister.

A tank sprang a leak on Monday, and around one tonne of chokladsmet ran out of the yard and out on to a street in Westönnen, just outside of Werl in north Rhine-Westphalia. The hot mixture froze quickly in the cold ground and formed a ten square meters large chokladpannkaka, writing the emergency services on his website.

since Then, the firemen skyfflat and hacked to get it off the chocolate. There were production at the plant resumed on Wednesday, which means that the deliveries before christmas is saved, according to the lokatidningen Soester daily gazette.