The temperature sensors of a sunflower-seed dryer in a grain silo detected a fire at around 10:00 a.m. The burner and fans turned off automatically. Upon seeing thick smoke coming out of the dryer, a technician closed the valve on the propane cylinder, opened the grain slide gate, and alerted his superiors and the public firefighters. The firefighters arrived 20 minutes later, set up a safety cordon around the LPG tanks, cut off the electricity supply to the site, and extinguished the hot spot after localising it with a thermographic camera. They left at around at 12:30 p.m.

At 2:00 p.m., the technicians saw flames at the bottom of the dryer. They doused them with water and once again called the firefighters, who extinguished the fire at 3:30 p.m. They left the scene at 4:30 p.m. after making a complete inspection of the dryer. No injuries were reported. A temperature sensor was destroyed, but the amount of lost sunflower seeds was not significant. According to the operator, employees who are trained in operating the dryer are continuously present when the dryer is in operation and the dryer is routinely cleaned. The dryer had been turned on at 8:00 a.m. that same morning and the temperature was first checked at 9:00 a.m. The drying temperature was between 60 and 65 °C and the seeds were very wet (up to 25% moisture). The dryer was restarted on the morning of 29 November after ensuring that it had been cleaned.