Firefighters Battle Out-of-Control Blaze at Berlin Ammunitions Dump

Firefighters Battle Out-of-Control Blaze at Berlin Ammunitions Dump
Smoke billows over sailing boats at Lake Wannsee in the harbor of Berlin's suburb Spandau after explosions in a former munitions depot and a wildfire at Grunewald Forest in Berlin, on Aug. 4, 2022. Reuters/Stringer
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BERLIN—More than 100 firefighters on Thursday battled a fire at an ammunitions dump in western Berlin, using water cannons and an army robot to try to contain the blaze that has triggered explosions and was still spreading, officials said.

The fire service set up a perimeter zone 1,000 metres (0.6 miles) from the centre of the fire, which it said had spread across 15,000 square metres of Grunewald, a forested area bordered by upscale villas and swimming lakes, as well as the sealed-off ammunitions dump.