Great fire to a plastic factory in Ricona It is underway in the morning, is a choking atmosphere and the residents have received a message from the 112 to close doors and windows. The industry has been completely destroyed. Storage and production unit of plastic, household and insulating films has now been completely delivered to flames.
It has been completely destroyed, the metal frame and the sheets have receded. The investment of the business has collapsed completely. They have bent from the strong thermal load caused by the great fire.
From side to side, this business has been handed over to flames, with firefighters early in the morning trying to limit its destructive work.
From 112 there has been a message that calls on residents to close the windows so as not to inhale the smoke.
These are dense black, toxic toxic toxic, that have covered the entire wider area up to Oinofyta and are very dangerous. After all, plastic and chemical solvents are burned in the morning, so a particularly choking atmosphere has been created.
The fire has been limited to a degree, but it takes many hours even until firefighters manage to achieve a complete extinguishing. What they have certainly achieved early is not to extend to adjacent businesses, because we are talking about an industrial area with other adjacent companies that also have plastic and even chemicals.
In the courtyard of the neighboring operations, where the masonry was grabbed in the morning and at the last minute the firefighters managed to face the fire before expanding and in this operation that manufactures plastic palettes, as well as the exact opposite side, an even larger plastic industry, and in that case it has been directly restricted, Ritsona farm area that is between these businesses, among these industries, and the fire could leave the forest.
This has been accomplished by firefighters very capable and are trying from there in the morning to extinguish this fire, which is certainly a very difficult task.
These are such materials that will take many hours of continuous water to cool both the business, the sheets and the burns in it, but also to manage to throw the thermal load and then of course limiting the fire. It will definitely take many hours more. We already see that where the roof recedes, new flames are coming from inside.
The materials are very flammable as you can imagine now in the morning, from 9 o’clock in the morning when this company is constantly receiving water that has arrived 3 in the afternoon and still dense flames are coming out of the interior. We are talking about tons of water that have fallen into this business since morning and yet the extinguishing continues with a huge mobilization.
What does the company answer
A few hours after the fire event, the competent company issued an official announcement, assuring that “The projected measures for the safety of staff and facilities were taken, which worked with complete success, to avoid the slightest accident and not even affect our facilities at least.“
The whole announcement:
Regarding today (July 12, 2025), a fire in the area of Ritsona, we announce that this is an event adjacent to our company, a plastics industry. To extinguish it, in addition to the Fire Brigade, the Matrix Pack contributed decisively by itself.
From the first moment, the projected measures for the safety of staff and facilities were taken, which worked successfully, in order to avoid the slightest accident and not to be at least minimized.
By the way, we would like to thank the Fire Department and the Region of Central Greece for their timely and decisive contribution.
Finally, we inform you that the production of the Matrix Pack has already returned to its normal levels.
Extraordinary measures
The Region of Central Greece issued a detailed announcement with instructions to citizens to protect public health.
In particular, the region warns of being harmful substances and microparticles In the smoke emitted, capable of being transported over long distances.
The competent services are directly undergoing checks on the impact on the atmosphere, soil and arable products, while preventive measures have already been issued for the general population, and especially for vulnerable groups.
Among the instructions included:
– Avoid staying outdoors where they are influenced by tobacco.
– Hermetically closed windows and doors until definitive extinguishing.
– Thorough cleaning of yards, tanks, outdoors and products (vegetables, fruits).
– Restriction of children and pets until complete cleaning of the area.
– Immediate medical advice for those who show respiratory or related symptoms.
– Special attention is also paid to water tanks and watering animals, which are called upon to remain covered to avoid pollution from the soot and the floating particles of the fire.
Source: Skai
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