The neighbors tried to put out the fire with their own means to protect their homes until the Firefighters could arrive and intervene. There are still troops in the area.
The inhabitants of Maramures, in the north of Romaniahave been inspecting the damage after extinguishing a huge fire in the area. Six warehouses have been reduced to ashes and several orchards have been destroyed by the fire that started on Saturday.
The Secretary of State of the Ministry of the Interior, Raed Arafatstated that 90 people had been evacuated from the area. The neighbors said that the big fire it started suddenly and escalated rapidly before spreading to houses.
“I was scared, I called 112, they asked me how far away the fire was, about 30 meters,” said Cornelia Pop, an affected neighbor. People tried to put out the fire with their own means. to protect their homes until the Firefighters could reach the scene and put it out.
“With shovels, with water pumps, with what we had, We also worked to prevent the fire from advancing.. Lucky that the surrounding vegetation was cut downotherwise we would have burned like rats,” said another local, Alexandru Precup.
More than 250 Firefighters from Maramures and several neighbors were mobilized to extinguish the fire. Firefighters teams They will remain in the area for surveillance purposes. The area is also under observation with the help of a drone and there are planes flying over it.
The General Inspection of Emergency Situations indicates that the fire started in an area of dry vegetation between the towns of Lapusel, Coltau and Ariesu de Padure and quickly got out of control.
But the authorities still They don’t know how it started and have opened an investigation to determine the cause.
