28 Apr, 2020 @ 15:34
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Man in Spain swamped by 4 metre wall of foam

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A WAREHOUSE worker in Spain had to be rescued when a fire suppression system went off, releasing a tidal wave of foam.

Fire crews in Zaragoza rushed to the scene when no sign of the man could be seen after the wall of foam swept through the warehouse and spilled out onto the street.

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LOST: Firefighters searched for worker swamped by foam.

They were alerted at about 4 am yesterday morning (April 27). But when they arrived it was impossible for them to find the man, with visibility reduced to zero as they waded through the foam that in places was up to four metres deep.

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ENGULFED: Lorry was nearly totally hidden when fire suppression system in warehouse was set off.

Fortunately the victim had managed to escape from the foam and find a sheltered spot from which he was able to direct firefighters, giving them directions until they reached him.

He was then taken to hospital for a precautionary check up.

As yet it is unknown what triggered the fire suppression system and it has not been disclosed what the warehouse stored.

Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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