“At around 8 p.m., the firefighting forces finished their work and left for their duty stations,” Saulius Žilinskas, a specialist in the Situation Coordination Department of the Fire Protection and Rescue Department, told Eltai on Friday morning.
ELTA reminds that the fire at the car dump on Panerių street 56 started on Wednesday evening. According to PAGD, the fire was reported at 6:32 p.m.
A large number of firefighters were dispatched to the fire. They arrived within 5 minutes of the fire being reported.
Firefighters worked at the scene of the fire throughout the night. The fire covered about 1300 square meters. m area where used cars and their parts prepared for recycling burned. Firefighters managed to protect from the fire 3 nearby storage and production buildings, a lot of various equipment and nearby high-power transformers belonging to ESO. On Thursday morning, at 5:32 a.m., the fire was declared extinguished.
“Extinguishing the fire was very difficult. Piles of metal about 9 meters high were burning. About 60 firefighters, 9 firefighting and rescue vehicles, a headquarters car and a car with respiratory protective equipment participated in the fire fighting,” says Donatas Gurevičius, head of the Civil Protection Department of the Vilnius Fire Rescue Board, who worked at the scene of the fire.
Vilnius county police officers have started a pre-trial investigation into the violation of the rules of environmental protection or use of natural resources.
Anyone who has violated these rules established by legal acts, if serious environmental consequences have arisen as a result, shall be punished by a fine or restriction of liberty, or arrest, or imprisonment for up to six years.
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