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Last day, during the period from 27 August of this year .06 .30 to 28 August  06.30, the State Fire and Rescue Service (VUGD) received 30 calls – 15 to the fire, including the extinguishment of one forest fire, 13 on rescue works, while two calls were grounds.

Tonight .03 .13 an invitation was received to the municipality of Iecava, where the fire had occurred in the residential house. On arrival at the scene, fire-fighters found that the roof of a single-story residential building in a full area of 120 m2 was burning with an open flame. At 05.09 the spread of fire was limited and clearing work is ongoing.

Come on. .16 .09 firefighters rushed to call in Daugavpils, where smoke was spotted in a multi-apartment building. When they arrived at the scene, the fire-fighters found that food had been burned in the three-story building, which was left on the stove on one of the apartments. . One person jailed at the site of the event, who was handed over to the Emergency Medical Service mediators m. Come on at17 .00 fire was eliminated.

In three more cases yesterday, VUGD received calls where food was burning, which was left unattended on the stove. . VUGD recalls: Take care when preparing and warming food ! Do not leave food on the switched stove unattended ! Set up smoke detectors in the housing that will warn you, enabling you to escape from threatened spaces and call fire rescuers by calling 112!

During the last day, fire-fighters also rushed to calls, where debris, chisel and grain, garden house and dry grass, farm building, unhandled building, three lightweight cars, farm building and shelter burned.

Rescuing animals in a helpless state, firefighters yesterday lifted a cow in the mud in the county of Krimulda, but in the county of Strenči the dog was lifted from a sewer well.

Prepared by: Prevention and Public Information Division