Explosion in a medical facility at the air base: With this message, more than 100 firefighters were ordered to the military site on Monday evening.
Fürstenfeldbruck - The detonation should have occurred on an MRI machine.
“This is generally problematic for us,” explains Bruck's commander Michael Ott.
Because the device contains a very strong magnet.
Ott reports of cases in which firefighters with their metal oxygen bottles have already been attracted and injured by the device.
When the emergency services arrived at the air base, a doctor met them.
He was able to give the first cautious all-clear.
The magnetic resonance tomograph has already switched itself off.
Background: In the afternoon a specialist company was apparently on site for maintenance.
According to Michael Ott, a defective pump was discovered that should have been repaired later.
The defective part apparently caused the MRI to deactivate itself.
As Ott explains, it's not that easy.
Because helium is used to cool the magnet.
When it is switched off, the gas is suddenly released, causing an explosive bang.
When it was released, steam was also produced, which had apparently been interpreted as smoke from an explosion.
The helpers did not have to extinguish or rescue.
The firefighters only operated the mechanical emergency stop system of the tomograph and handed the device over to the Bundeswehr at the air base.
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