2023-06-28 12:00:00
Red-white-red barrier fences and a no-place sign are the ones in the Freindorf district in Ansfelden (Linz-Land district) on Wednesday indicate that nothing is as usual. Police officers on site point out to the KURIER reporter in a friendly but firm manner that there is no progress here.
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Here where on Tuesday night at a Gasexplosion at least one person was injured. A detached house got caught by the incident related to a earth drilling stands on fire.
From the barrier itself, you can only see a single house in the settlement in the Neubaustrasse and Steingasse area. This is intact. There are no traces of what happened during the night.
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A 65-year-old man was injured in Tuesday night’s incident. A detached house got caught by the incident related to a earth drilling stands on fire. Due to further gas leakage, the evacuation Arranged by 65 buildings in the endangered area, the police said.
As of Wednesday, the area was still pouring Gas out of. become hourly gas measurements made to know where the gas cloud is going underground.
Sealing work has started
Around noon, work began to seal the hole. “First you drill before you can start pouring,” said Mayor Christian Partoll (FPÖ) in the early followingnoon.
Combustible gas is always on at night lawn surfaces kicked in and started to burn, extinguishing measures are being carried out everywhere, district fire brigade commander Helmut Födermayr described the situation. 130 forces from 13 weirs are constantly in action.
That’s how the explosion happened
At a deep drilling for a heat pump for a residential building, there was a water leak at a depth of around 90 meters around 5 p.m. on Tuesday, also with a gas mixture. 1,000 liters of water per minute shot at the surface. The fire brigade pumped out the water and the situation was considered stable. Suddenly at around 9 p.m. there was a house regarding 100 meters away from the deep drilling Explosion and it started to burn. The resident was rescued from the burning building by firefighters and suspected of having a smoke inhalation taken to the hospital, his partner was unharmed. For more measurements it was found that gas was escaping in various areas. Therefore, 65 objects were evacuated.
During the night you have experts from the OMV requested to close the borehole to do. A technical solution should be found by noon, it was announced at the press conference on Wednesday morning.
The cause of the explosion
Explained how the exit from the Gau might have come regarding State geologist Christoph Kolmer. Basically, there are thousands of such in Upper Austria deep drilling. following that geothermal cable is laid, the hole is grouted once more.
In the current case, “shallow natural gas” was encountered underground, which was poured into the side of the pipe next to it underground exited and through the well-drained gravel got into the wider environment, said Kolmer. After the gas finds the path of least resistance, it flows in cavities such as light shafts or cellars. A spark is enough and it comes on Explosion.
It is unclear when residents can return
The State Criminal Police Office has the investigation to the exact cause of the accident recorded in the house. It was initially unclear how long the residents would not be able to return to their homes.
102 of the 150 people affected were initially im City hall and were cared for by the Red Cross, reported paramedic Claudia Engertsberger. A large part is with relatives or friends, Wednesday followingnoon there were still around 30 people in the town hall.
For the elderly and frail evacuees, a room will be organized in the center for care and nursing in Ansfelden, for the others with innkeepers, the mayor added.
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