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During the past 4 days, the country’s firefighters and rescuers went to extinguish 160 fires and performed 138 rescue operations. 3 people were injured during the fires.
Meanwhile, 10 fires and 4 rescue operations were recorded in the city and district of Alytus during the past week. As the head of the Alytus Fire Rescue Service said. specialist Povilas Armanavičius, both last week and the Easter weekend were busy for firefighters. Firefighters went to rescue operations 4 times. It was necessary to help the medics, to clean the road surface after traffic accidents, to save a cat stuck in a tree, to collect pollutants in the stream that floated into the Nemunas.
Burning fires were also extinguished. 6 fires were extinguished in open areas and buildings burned 4 times. No people were injured in these fires. According to Povilas Armanavičius, firefighters are worried about the sad statistics of fires, last year April was greeted with 44 fires, while this year 122 fires have already been recorded by April 1. The number of fires in Alytus city and district increased threefold.
Events in Lithuania:
On Friday, at 11:15 p.m., a fire was reported in an abandoned building in Šakių district, Sudargo village. When firefighters arrived, a pile of firewood was burning in one of the rooms of the wooden building. Rescuers found an unconscious person in one of the rooms, took him outside and resuscitated him. After some time, he recovered and was handed over to the arriving medics. The man was taken to the hospital. A part of the wooden wall was burnt during the fire.
Saturday, around 4 p.m. in the morning, in Varėna district, in the village of Perloja, a wooden residential house was burning with an open flame. The owner of the house burned his hands during the fire. He was treated by paramedics on the spot. He refused to go to the hospital. During the fire, 10 square meters were burnt. m of the roof of the building, the roof, the interior of the house was burnt.
Late in the evening of the same day, Šiauliai firefighters were called to Gardin Street. They had to climb a ladder to the apartment on the second floor. A pot was simmering on the stove in the kitchen. Firefighters removed the woman from the apartment and handed her over to emergency medical personnel. After a medical examination, she was taken to the hospital. There was no smoke detector in the apartment. Firefighters ventilated the premises.
On Easter morning, a garden house caught fire in the community of gardens in the village of Gulbiniškii in the district of Jonava, in the district of Switzerland. During the fire, the resident burned his hands. Doctors helped him on the spot. During the fire, the roof of the house was burnt, the interior was burnt, about 15 square meters were burnt. m next to the roof of the former farm building. Firefighters protected the wood workshop, the garage next to the house, and the farm building of the neighbors from the flames. There was no smoke detector in the house.
On Saturday, around 12 o’clock, half of the roof of a residential house was burning with an open flame in Laugaliau street, Gargždaii, Klaipėda district. The fire broke out in the sewing room on the second floor. About 50 square meters were burned in two rooms. m of walls and ceilings, the same number of roof structures, sewing equipment, embroidery and other tools that were inside were burnt, two plastic windows cracked due to the heat.
8:29 p.m. Old rolls of hay and branches were burning in the meadow in the Skuodas district, in the village of Notenai. During the fire, piled branches burned, 15 rolls of hay were dismantled and filled with water.
Before midnight on Sunday, the storage buildings of the owners of the group caught fire on VA Graičiūnas Street in Vilnius. When firefighters arrived, the roof of a one-story brick building was burning with open flames. During the fire, a BMW car was burnt in the car workshop, 5 other cars were burnt, about 300 square meters were burnt. m of roof structures. Firefighters pushed a Mercedes Benz minibus out of an adjacent room.
On Monday after midnight, the roof of a wooden residential house and 3 wooden outbuildings caught fire in Trakai district, Seneiyi Trakai ward, Senoi Tarpupis village. During the fire, one outbuilding, the roof of a residential building, the roof of another outbuilding, and the roof of a third outbuilding burned down.
6:51 p.m. In the Varėna district, in the Merkinė ward, in the village of Vilkiautinii, an open flame was burning in summer houses. It was burnt in the fire. A nearby plastic greenhouse also burned.
During the past 3 days, the country’s firefighters went to extinguish 73 fires in open areas. During them, more than 20 ha of meadows, forest floor, etc. burned. In total, this year firefighters extinguished burning grass 373 times. Almost 120 ha of open areas were burnt during these fires.
On Friday, firefighters and rescuers in Trakai, Galvės lake, helped the Environmental Protection Service to collect spilled pollutants. Two pleasure boats were found burned and sunk in the lake, about 400 m from the shore, and oil products were spilled from them.
On Saturday, at 11:18 a.m., a report was received that a drowning man was seen in Kaunas district, Raudondvaris ward, Karnavės village, Nemunas. Firefighters pulled out the man’s body.
6:43 p.m. it was reported that a 14-year-old girl fell from a cliff into a stream in the village of Neveronii, Kaunas district. She was submerged in water up to her neck. Firefighters and rescuers, using high ladder equipment, lifted the minor, carried her to an ambulance and handed her over to medics.
On Sunday, at 3:40 p.m., a report was received from the police that a drowning person had been spotted in Kaišiadorių district, Rumšiškių ward, Vosyliškių village, Kaunas lagoon. Firefighters pulled out the body.
On Monday, at 1:27 p.m., the Aeronautical Rescue Coordination Center reported that a paraglider had fallen in the Širvintos district, in the town of Kernavės. When firefighters arrived, they found two conscious men with parachutes in the middle of the slope. Rescuers took them to an ambulance.
