The fire spread, according to the fire department on Thursday. Further explosions occurred again and again. In the morning, an area of one and a half hectares was affected. In the afternoon, it was said that an area of about 50 hectares was affected. "They're not all completely on fire, some of them are just smoky," fire department spokesman Thomas Kirstein announced late Thursday afternoon. But the area had expanded significantly since the early morning hours, he said. "We're in good spirits now, though," Kirstein said. "We have an independent firefighting supply that will put us massively ahead in the evening hours today."