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Company sources have explained to EFE that the flames have devastated everything, although fortunately there have been no personal injuries and the team that was working at that time was able to leave the facilities without anyone being injured.
The 1-1-2 emergency service has specified to EFE that at around 3:12 a.m. they have received a call warning of a fire in an engine that was outside the factory but within the company premises, and They have notified the firefighters of the Provincial Council and the Civil Guard.
The firefighters of the capital have helped those of the Diputación in the work of extinction of the fire that has burned the office warehouse and another storage where the freezers were with the animal products that are used in the firm of transformation of food products.
Security protocols have been activated
In a statement, the company has assured that its priority right now is to collaborate with the public order forces to clarify the causes of the fire and has stressed that fortunately the security protocols were activated quickly and efficiently.
“The most important thing of all is that there is no need to regret personal misfortunes,” says the company, which appreciates the “tremendous effort” of both the authorities and the fire services that have contributed to the fact that this fire has been controlled and is being extinguished.
On the other hand, Cascajares sends a message of tranquility to its employees, clients, suppliers and consumers: “from today we begin to work to be able to recover our productive capacity as soon as possible,” says the statement, in which they add: “we are living a catastrophe but we have the strength to get ahead and rise stronger.
Reactions and unanimous support for the company
As soon as the fire was known, the president of the Board, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, contacted the president of Cascajares, Alfonso Jiménez, and assured him that the regional government will be together with this company so that they can recover the activity and employment in the shortest possible time.
Messages of support on social networks that have also been launched by the vice president of the Board, Juan García Gallardo, who has asserted that they are not going to leave Cascajares alone, or the Family Business of Castilla y León (EFCL), which has also shown all its support for.
For her part, the president of the Provincial Council of Palencia, Ángeles Armisén, has shown at the beginning of the ordinary plenary session held this morning the dismay of the institution at the fire and has announced that the Provincial Council will immediately study the way to support and help extraordinary way to the company.
Armisén has sent to the elaboration of a report the causes and details of the intervention of the Firefighters of the institution to put out the fire registered this morning in the industrial estate of Dueñas.
And he added that the first firefighters to intervene, due to proximity, were those from the provincial park located in Venta de Baños, and then those from the Baltanás park.
“Very few hours have passed and the firefighters continue to work in the place,” Armisén explained to journalists during a recess in the plenary session of the Palencia Provincial Council that is held this Thursday morning.
In any case, he has transferred “all the support” of the institution that he presides over to the Cascajares firm, especially to its two founders and owners Alfonso Jiménez-Rodríguez and Francisco Iglesias, as well as to the workers with the desire to “recover as soon as possible activity: in the face of misfortunes we are there in that support”, he stressed.
“We have to be thankful that there have been no personal misfortunes in the face of an incident that has caused very serious damage to a very important company in the agri-food sector,” he summarized. EFE
