The head of the Vilnius Fire and Rescue Board, Nerijus Statkus, announced on Monday that a fire broke out at the Energesman waste management plant in the capital on Sunday morning. fire is liquidated. However, work at the fire site is still ongoing. According to preliminary data, 7,5 thousand square meters of the factory building burned down in the fire.
"The fire was extinguished at 13:44 p.m.," on Monday in Vilnius city municipality N. Statkus said at a press conference held on
According to him, five fire tankers and a staff vehicle are currently working at the fire site, and water is being poured over the smoldering debris.
"The work will take a little longer, but there is no danger to residents," said N. Statkus.
The head of the Vilnius Fire Department said that the factory building that caught fire is irregular in shape, approximately 210 meters long and about 92 meters wide.
"About 7,5 thousand square meters of the building burned down during the fire," said N. Statkus.
According to him, when the fire broke out, garbage and its sorting equipment were burning at the factory.
"There were no people in the building, so we carried out firefighting operations inside the building," a fire department spokesman noted.
According to N. Statkus, initially, when extinguishing the fire, firefighters were unable to enter the building due to heavy smoke and high temperatures. This, according to the head of the Vilnius Fire and Rescue Board, caused the fire to take a long time to extinguish.
As stated by the Mayor of Vilnius Valdas Benkunskas, it is not yet clear why the fire broke out at the Energesman factory. According to him, the only thing that is clear at this time is that the fire remained inside the building.
"The fire was in the area of the building where the primary waste collection takes place, that is, cars, garbage trucks arrive, unload the waste and load it onto conveyors, so it was in that segment of the building that the fire started," he said. V. Benkunskas.
He added that the building's automatic fire suppression systems were activated, but it appears they eventually failed and the fire spread.
ELTA reminds that on Sunday morning, a huge fire broke out at the large Energesman waste management plant on Jočionyų Street in Vilnius. The report was received at 7:49 a.m. When firefighters arrived at the scene 10 minutes later, a metal hangar, where mechanical and biological processing of municipal waste is carried out, was burning with open flames. There were no people in the building.
The fire was extinguished on Sunday by over 60 firefighters from Vilnius, Panevėžys, Utena and Anykščiai. 13 tanker trucks and 10 special vehicles – lifts, ladders, a water transport truck, a respiratory protection apparatus truck, a mobile sewage pump, fire hose trucks, etc. – arrived at the fire scene.
On Sunday, at 17.30:8 p.m., the fire was localized, and firefighting operations continued throughout the night. XNUMX company employees with forklifts worked alongside the firefighters. Employees of the Environmental Protection Department, police, and the Emergency Medical Service were also on duty at the headquarters throughout the night.
Law enforcement officials have launched a pre-trial investigation into this massive fire at the Energesman waste sorting company in Gariūnai. The investigation was initiated for violations of environmental protection or natural resource use rules, or the maintenance or use of structures that use or store hazardous materials or contain potentially hazardous equipment or conduct hazardous activities.
Gytis Pankūnas (ELTA)
