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Guide Firefighter injured in solar-plus-storage explosion and fire in Spain: The fire, which affected a photovoltaic installation in a container with batteries at the port of Gandia, started at...
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Guide Twenty firefighters responded to a fire involving photovoltaic panels in the Port of Gandia area of Spain and to an explosion of an associated
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