Firefighters intervened over 2.300 times over the Christamas period (24th, 25th and 26th of December) - the spokesman for the Polish State Fire Service (PSP) Senior Brigadier Paweł Frątczak informed on Friday. He added that in the said period there were 612 fires in which 8 people died and 35 got injured. One person died due to carbon monoxide poisoning.
The PSP spokesman said that over the said three days firefighters intervened 2336 times in total. Across Poland 612 fires broke out, in which 8 people died and 35 got injured.
Deadly fires broke out the Masovian, Subcarpathian and Opole Voivodeships. Five people died in Warsaw alone - in two fires in Bemowo district and one in Wawer.
Firefighters were dispatched 1532 times to tend to the so-called local dangers which include, among other things, removing damage caused by rainfall and strong winds. There were 192 false alarms. 43 times had the fire service been called to carbon monoxide related incidents - one person died as a result of CO poisoning, 29 were hospitalised.
Mr Frątczak stressed that this year's Christmas holidays were more busy than in 2018. "The increase in number of interventions was influenced by the Christmas Eve (Tuesday, 24th December), as on that day we were dispatched 164 times to incidents caused by wind and rain in southern Poland," he explained. These interventions took place mainly in the regions of Subcarpathia, Lesser Poland and Silesia.
This year, however, there were less fires, and less deaths than last year, when 686 fires consumed lives of 14 people - 6 more than in 2019. Frątczak also reminded that last year's tragic statistic was hugely influenced by the capital city, in particular, by the fire of a shack in Żerań neighbourhood which killed 6 people.
Autor: gf / Źródło: TVN24 News in English, PAP
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