Anzegem Three employees of the Ruimdienst Cannie from Oostrozebeke were Friday morning zwaarverband when they went to the windows and deurenbedrijf Pouleyn in Vichte a silo wanted to unload that yesterday a fire raged. The victims were in danger of exclusion. A fourth employee walked minor injuries.
The fire brigade repte themselves yesterday to the company Pouleyn after fire had originated in one of the two silos where wood chips are collected. The fire extinguishers were at the end in the back and got the situation quickly under control. Also the aftercare was apparently as it should be. The board of directors of the company decided today to the silo to unload by a specialized company. They did an appeal on Ruimdienst Cannie from Oostrozebeke.
Four employees of that company started out Friday morning to finish the job. But when she was between the two silos, a hatch opened, it went all wrong. In the silo, there was still a lot of heat. The supply of oxygen made the flames far above the silos came from. Three employees were in the middle of the inferno, a fourth had more luck. Two of the most heavily burned victims were taken to the burns unit of the Ghent university hospital is transferred, the two others to the AZ Groeninge hospital in Kortrijk.
